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In Reply to: Schlinder's List on DVD posted by townsend on March 10, 2004 at 16:40:08:
Schlinder's List is a compelling movie and while it may not be exactly accurate, the major theme of the movie is wholly indisputable. Part of the problem in the US is that people do not want to deal with the harshness of reality and therefore they turn their heads and "pretend" the matter away.Unfortunately, those who do not know history are bound to repeat it. Hitler exterminated millions of Jews in an attempt to wipe out an entire race...and almost accomplished it. If that doesn't get your attention, maybe the movie's depiction of the ovens will....
What is truely amazing is that this event in history occurred only about 60 years ago; all when the sentiment in the US was not to get involved. The exact same sentiment today when it comes to dealing with foreign powers gone nuts.
You need to see this movie for no other reason than to realize the danger of US foreign policy apathy. Had the US gotten involed earlier, many millions of lives would have been preserved.
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The U.S. had a non interference policy...they worried about their own country. So they get blamed for joining late.Today they see or believed that Saddam was pulling a Hitler and secretly ammassing weapons so they proactively go in and stop it while the rest of the world - like WWII - sat back and watched Hitler build Tanks, planes, ships - even though under the Versaille act they were NOT supposed to. America today jumped in and what happens everyone whines and complains about how bad America is for going in.
Of course Bush believed they had WMD's. If it was a big lie America would have PLANTED the evidence.
And stepping back a bit - if it were not for Canada keeping the supply lines open to Britain that war would have been LOST a good year before America got involved. Canada seems not to tout and over exagerate what it does.
Over the Dieppe raid there were 4000 Canadian soldiers several hundred Brits and 50 US Rangers who were there to WATCH. In the NY Times following the raid the newspaper article said (paraphrase)America and Britain storm Dieppe ..." Huh?
"those who do not know history are bound to repeat it."
Unfortunately History also gives evil people an opportunity to learn from mistakes the first time around and get better at killing.
People in power know th history...we still have attempted genocides.
The reason Schindler's List works is to help PREVENT the apathy. A subdued public is perfect for those in power. That film shows that one drunken womanizing out for pure profit businessman can actually do a lot to stop the evil going on around him.
I would not call it " US " apathy but just " men ". After the terrible experience of the WW1, I can understand the slow move. It is just but human.
We never can says thanks enough to W. Churchill! In the later case.
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