LH,

"There are many more who do not appreciate what happened to the Gypsies, the Armenians, the Kurds, the various Christian sects wiped out by the Church of Rome, the "witches" and other people killed by the Inquisition, the Japanese interned in North America in WWII, the Tibetans, the Cherokees, the Nez Perce, the Iroquois, the Beothuks, the Acadians, the Palestinians, the Poles, and a hundred other unfortunate nations or groups all over the place who have been massacred by other people at various times in history"


Gypsies, the Armenians, the Kurds, the various Christian sects wiped out by the Church of Rome I will give you suffered as greatly as the Jews, if not in quite the systematic, industrialized fashion. I fail, though, to see how you can equivalence the internment of the Japanese, as bad as it was, to those dedicated attempts to destroy and entire group.

Human history is full of massacres- but the number of genocidal efforts to destroy rather than control a large group are far fewer, and stand out as different.

I see now how you can set as equal the kidnapping and execution of an innocent civilian and the internment of suspected enemy combatents, the suicide bomber going into a children's birthday party and the use of a rocket to kill a terrorist leader.

By the standards you have set, there is no difference between Hitler and anyone else. We are ALL members of some group that at some time unfairly inflicted some suffering on some other group.