Democrat Tom Lantos says "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay". Do you agree?

Question

I do. He also told the Dutch
"You have to help us, because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany."

Answer 1

Lantos, a holocaust survivor, apparently got a little carried away. Such a remark was entirely uncalled for.

Answer 2

Doesn't seem too far fetched, however, at the same time, unrealistic. He was obviously (hopefully) going for shock and awe, or trying to initiate discussion, in which case he succeeded. I'm not so sure if it's very practical, because I wasn't alive when the death camps were discovered, but Guantanamo Bay was/ is much adue about nothing. Beat the truth out of those bastards, I say! Of course, that is, if they know something in the first place...

Answer 3

Europe? Who cares what Europe thinks. They still think it was Europeans who won WWII. I do not want leaders who think we have to have European approval of what we do. Guantanamo Bay is a necessary evil. It is holding Muslims caught on the battlefield with weapons and no uniform. These men are not subject to the Geneva Convention. They are not being starved. They have the freedom to practice their religion. When cleared they are being flown home. Somehow Europeans consider this worse than Auschwitz? In what way? Perhaps we should have only fought in the Pacific. After all, Hitler did not attack the United States, Japan did. Then all those holier than thou Europeans could be speaking German and going Heil Hitler. All the Jews, Gypsies , Homosexuals and anyone else Hitler feared and or hated would be dead and maybe, the gas chambers would be closed by now. But, maybe not.

Answer 4

Such people have no sense of perspective to compare a few hundred terrorists in a military prison to 2 million Jews gassed and incinerated at a rate of 9,000 a day (at peak "efficiency").

I am assuming the context is that Tom Lantos is criticizing the Europeans, in which case I agree with him.

Answer 5

Different times and different circumstances. Auschwitz was but one of many concentration/death camps operated by the Nazi Government and very little was known about these camps because there was very little information avilable. The Guantanamo Bay detention center is the subject of worldwide news. It is difficult to be outraged by something one does not know about.

Answer 6

I think he must be senile. There was never anything wrong with Guantanamo. Nothing could be worse than Auchwitz. Millions of Jews were slaughtered for no reason.
At Guantanamo, the US held enemy combatants. Not one was gassed to death.

Answer 7

Auschwitz was a secret during WWII. The existence of Gitmo is well known. No one at Gitmo is being gassed, and thrown into ovens. Although I doubt you would be a German province, you would most likely be a Soviet Satellite.

Answer 8

Yes.

Because if you spoke out against Auschwitz the Nazis would send you there...

If you speak out against Gitmo the Ameircans won't do anything to you, but all the local left wing politicans will tell you that you are "brave" and you get to go on TV.

Make a film about Islam and you get knifed, write a book about Islam and you have to spend you life in hiding, do a cartoon about Mohammed and you get mobs of Muslims screaming they want to burn you alive.

BUT protesting against the USA and Israel is perfectly safe.

So that is why they protest against America, but not the terrorists.

People on the Left (both European and American) are only willing to stand up to opponents who won't fight back.

Answer 9

Another Democrat nutcase. Sorry, but this is getting ridiculous. Comparing Gitmo to Auschwitz not only seriously undermines the severity and important of the Holocaust, it also embarrasses this country. If he had any honor, he'd resign. Unfortunately he has no honor. And neither do those who support him.

/EDIT: katydid, one more time. They are not US citizens. They are not civilian criminals. They do not have Constitutional protection. They are not subject to US criminal courts. They do get Geneva protections (the Geneva Convention specifically excluded non-uniformed combatants).

They are enemy combatants. They are military prisoners during a time of war. They are subject to military law. They are terrorists.

Answer 10

The Holocaust was, for most Europeans, an unknown act during a war that killed 30 million Europeans. Gitmo and rendition torture is happening right under our noses, and everybody knows it, yet it goes on.