A quibble, since Carrol and I for once agree on the sentiment. I think he confuses the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in April-May 42 with the Home Army Rising in Aug-Sept 45. In 42, the Red Army was defending Moscow. In 44, it was on the outskirts of Warsaw. --jks
>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: the rabbinical view of LesserEvilism
>Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 17:56:21 -0600
>
>Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> > True, but the Warsaw Ghetto fighters were heroes. --jks
>
>If you watch any of the disaster movies, it is intriguing how they always
>show
>masses running frantically away from what cannot be escaped (such as a
>half-mile high tidal wave a few blocks behind them). Then a few isolated
>individuals are shown awaiting it with teary courage (usually holding
>someone's
>hand). They rarely show collective courage in the face of the inevitable.
>And
>yet in actuality there are innumerable examples of the latter -- the Warsaw
>Ghetto being one. And the Red Army was not that far off. It might have
>ended
>differently.
>
>Carrol
>
>
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