What's next? Will we learn that the dead of Auschwitz were also the victims of reckless and reactionary policies pursued by the United States?
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CB: The dead of Auschwitz were not Americans; and wouldn't those be the victims of reckless and reactionary policies pursued by Germany ?
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It used to be that when Jews were killed for sport, people said that they were the victims of their own authorities' and ancestors' crimes. Now at least they say that they are the victims of the United States's policies.
I suppose that this is progress--of a sort.
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CB: I think in this case the author is probably thinking about all the people the U.S. military has murdered or caused the death of in the Arab and Islamic world in the last ten years, 500,000 in Iraq , etc. Seems quite plausible that the murderers of Pearl considered it retaliation for this ongoing U.S. anti-Arab genocide.