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...crusade to confront. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky? A "house Jew." Ditto for Rabbi Ben Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel. Anyone who fails to exhibit sufficient chutzpah (Dershowitz determines how much that is) is falling into the same rut that led to discrimination, pogroms and Auschwitz...
Westerners, who have wandered through centuries of darkness and enlightenment and rationalism and scientific method and then the various neo- darknesses of the 20th century (Auschwitz, Hiroshima and so on), have some difficulty with these dreamy effects in which reality and illusion float back and forth interchangeably. Americans have a special longing of their own. They need to know they are working in a scheme of virtue. Americans feel a moral unease when they sense that their power is banging around loose in the world without being, in a sort of theological sense, justified. The antiwar slogan "No Blood...
What would proponents of "oppose the war, support the troops" say, for example, in the case of a Nazi SS soldier ordered to serve as a guard at Auschwitz during World War II? Is he a baby-killing monster like the Vietnam veteran, morally accountable for his actions? Or is he a "hero" like the soldier of Desert Storm, deserving "support" and "honor" because he had "no choice but to follow orders...
There are laughs where only Roth can find them: a nutty Auschwitz survivor hustling his pornographic Holocaust novel. But elsewhere, readers may find themselves close to tears. Looking at the magnetic-resonance images of the growth that is killing his father, Roth thinks, "This was the tissue that had manufactured his set of endless worries and sustained for more than eight decades his stubborn self-discipline, the source of everything that had so frustrated me as his adolescent son." And also powered Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint...
Comparisons of Saddam Hussein to Hitler may be overblown. The Iraqi dictator has not built a Middle Eastern Auschwitz -- yet. But Saddam does seem to share one Hitlerian trait identified by British historian Alan Bullock: he is "consumed ((by)) the will to power in its crudest and purest form . . . power and domination for its own sake," to be expanded without limit. If Saddam is allowed to keep part of Kuwait -- and make no mistake, that is what those advocating a "diplomatic solution" are hinting at -- he will be back to take a bite out of another victim. Not right away...