Hitchens responds to critics

[joanna bujes]

At 11:00 AM 09/25/2001 -0400, Nathan and Doug wrote:
> >The Germans suffered serious injustice following World War I; so should be
> >just "explain" the Holocaust as a misguided overreaction to justified
> >grievances?
>
>Of course not, but it's a start, isn't it? Otherwise you're in Elie
>Wiesel territory - to analyze is to defame the memory of the dead -
>or Goldhagen territory - some mysterious characteristic of Germans.
>Or do you agree with them?

Hell, I always thought it was the first campaign of the "anything is better 
than communism" foreign policy. So long as Hitler's guns were pointing east 
and his plan was to turn eastern europe and the soviet union into labor 
camps, nobody in the west gave a good goddamn. After all, everyone else had 
their empires. Why not Germany too, provided they didn't step on our toes 
and provided they destroyed the communist menace?  Time's Man of the Year!

Joanna Bujes