[Dean's World] Ron Coleman: Bush at Yad Vashem

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Posted by Ron Coleman:
Bush at Yad Vashem
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1200070519.shtml


   President Bush today, after the experience of visiting Yad Vashem, the
   Israeli Holocaust memorial and museum, [1]expressed his wish that his
   predecessors in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Harry S.
   Truman, had actually done something about the Holocaust. That got me
   -- and a friend of Likelihood of Success -- [2]thinking. My
   conclusion:

     Even Darfur does not generate interest among African Americans, so
     it is hardly surprising that those in power are not galvanized into
     action. Indeed, as I (and many others) said, the leading African
     American in the world right now, and a large part of the country,
     said last year that if leaving Iraq to limitless butchery would be
     the result of our exit from there, well, then hell with Iraq.

     It's much easier to wait and express regret than to lose votes and
     regret expressing humanity.

   If you want to read the whole thing, it's [3]here.

References

   1. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jF2q4QtEfjzlCtkNJ6CeN2TMJQSQD8U3KT981
   2. http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/
   3. http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2008/01/11/were-all-sorry-now/