If you read what the article and subsequent posts said and what I replied to, you would see that it was not me who suggested that our participation in WW2 was to save Jews or that we should have mounted an operation to save Jews.
My original point was to those who said that Holland should apologize for her participation or blind eye to the holocaust during the war - that they should also then consider that the U.S. should apologize for not allowing Jews on refugee boats fleeing Nazi Germany to enter the U.S. just prior to WW2.
I don’t see why you feel like jumping down my throat. I was just saying that it wasn’t fair to say that the U.S. did “nothing” to stop the holocaust. The U.S. was instrumental in stopping the fascist domination of Europe. Of course WWII wasn’t just or even mainly about saving Jews... nobody is saying that.
I do think that any such “apologies” as discussed are just a little pathetic. The people who were wronged are gone, as are the people that wronged them. Few things are as useless and empty as apologies by people that weren’t there to some other people that weren’t there, for stuff they didn’t do. It means nothing. History is history. It was what it was. Would things happen the same way today? Of course not. History is a product of specific times and the people too are cast within their own context of prevailing beliefs and perceptions. It’s not really fair to them or us to re-script long passed events with a modern moral perspective. There’s no particular point in trying to take responsibility now. It changes nothing.