It's pretty interesting how much heat merely questioning Churchill's choices have generated. We've invested so much energy into the idea that the Nazis were the penultimate evil that asking if there was another way to address them is not allowed. But Churchill DID make choices, and what followed as at least in part, a result of his choices. In 1940, Eastern Europe was not under Soviet domination, and the Holocaust was not yet a fact. If you believe, as I do, that the British Empire had some goo…

I see no evidence that Americans considered Japanese subhuman. More alien than the Germans that were held in very small numbers, sure (and to intern the enormous German-derived population in America, such as Eisenhower, or Nimitz, was obviously impossible). But without getting into the right and wrong of the internment, even to adduce what life was like for the Japanese in those camps as a like thing to what went on in the bloodlands, seems to me obscene.

You’re being obstinate. As a people we are bound by these things in a far more comprehensive way than any other I can think of. Will all Jews subscribe to all of them? Obviously not. But that is my point about variation. There is enough commonality to substantiate my argument.