The incredible hyperbole continues. At his personal site, Erik Svane has an excellent piece on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, and takes on Le Monde:
. . .One Le Monde editor had the gall to compare the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison to that of the victims of the Nazis. If only. If only the latter had been so lucky: if only the only thing the prisoners at Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and Birkenau had had to endure was the humiliation of stripping for sick photos from a handful of idiotic soldiers. If only that had led to a scandal. If only an independent media outlet had uncovered the story and had rocked the government with it. And if only German leaders had been outraged by the treatment of said prisoners and promised immediate reform and retaliation against the guilty parties. Instead of being complicit in, and indeed instigating, the horrors of the 1940s. . .
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"The more he saw of Europe, the dearer his own country became, taking a
luster to all its parts that no one bound to the farther shore could know it
merited." (p. 331)
