Friday, April 24, 2009

Obama Speaks About Holocaust.

"It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time,
where so many markers of human progress became tools of human depravity:
science that can heal, used to kill;
education that can enlighten, used to rationalize away basic moral impulses;
the bureaucracy that sustains modern life, used as the machinery of mass death,
a ruthless, chillingly efficient system where many were responsible
for the killing, but few got actual blood on their hands."

I wish he could 'hear' what he is saying! Does he only speak what he thinks will go over to whatever audience he has at the moment?

Read more (context) here, and also here.




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