Auschwitz 70th anniversary liberation shame

[Steve_uk]

With merely 300 survivors of the Nazi death camp left on earth the major nations have chosen to send second-rate dignitories to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its liberation. America has sent Treasury Secretary Jack Lew,the UK is represented by Cabinet joke Eric Pickles,whilst the Russians who liberated the camp have been banned by Poland due to the Ukrainian crisis. This lies in stark contrast to the Saudi despot King Abdullah's funeral,where Western nations were fawning over themselves to ingratiate themselves with his successor.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30996555

[ABlairican Pie]

Insane how our countries have priorities messed up. Just like when the other week the U.S. sent a lobbyist to Paris for the commemoration of those who lost their lives in the shooting. No high-ranking officials.

[Steve_uk]

Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie

Insane how our countries have priorities messed up. Just like when the other week the U.S. sent a lobbyist to Paris for the commemoration of those who lost their lives in the shooting. No high-ranking officials.

Oh we can't call the Paris killers terrorists now either.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...-10001739.html

[Steve_uk]

Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

Secretary Lew is an Orthodox Jew whose father emigrated to the US from Poland.

I didn't know that Alan Brady's Hair and I'm sure he would have wanted to attend what may be one of the last gatherings of survivors of the Holocaust. I just thought that the commemoration of over one million deaths in that camp and six million overall was worth an appearance by Obama,who had no qualms at spaniel fawning over King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia's successor.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/0...184744732.html

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by Steve_uk

With merely 300 survivors of the Nazi death camp left on earth...

Considering how it has been seventy years, I'm surprised that we have 300 survivors left.

[D-Dey]

Originally Posted by Steve_uk

With merely 300 survivors of the Nazi death camp left on earth the major nations have chosen to send second-rate dignitories to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its liberation. America has sent Treasury Secretary Jack Lew,the UK is represented by Cabinet joke Eric Pickles,whilst the Russians who liberated the camp have been banned by Poland due to the Ukrainian crisis. This lies in stark contrast to the Saudi despot King Abdullah's funeral,where Western nations were fawning over themselves to ingratiate themselves with his successor.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30996555

If they hadn't been so hell-bent on reconquering the nations previously conquered both by the former Soviet Union, and the Czarist regime it replaced, maybe they might've been more willing to invite them.

[Steve_uk]

Originally Posted by D-Dey

If they hadn't been so hell-bent on reconquering the nations previously conquered both by the former Soviet Union, and the Czarist regime it replaced, maybe they might've been more willing to invite them.

Of course there is some truth in this,but I think an exception could have been made for an event as momentous as this. I think Obama was badly advised to have stayed away,or he deliberately delegated it to a person of Jewish faith in his administration and thought no more of it. As for building empires,one gets into an awful mess if one is not careful on deciding the legitimacy or otherwise of nation states' actions. For example I note that although the USA wishes to normalize relations with Cuba after all these years it is unwilling to return Guantanamo Bay,the new Greek government wishes to end sanctions against Russia yet seems to ignore the annexation of Crimea,whilst seemingly there is a stalemate on the status of Cyprus,the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 was declared illegal under international law by a British House of Commons committee,there's the status of Kosovo to consider,then there's the whole can of worms regarding the Iraq war and the Chilcot Enquiry,not to mention whether the West should intervene in Syria..