Lantos Hits Nail On The Head

Tom Lantos has his issues (most recently, essentially accusing General Petraeus of lying about the war in Iraq), but it appears that when his personal history and heritage are attacked, he is capable of stating the truth:

Rep Tom Lantos (D-Ca), a Hungarian Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, now representing a San Francisco area district in Congress heard a Dutch Green Party legislator threaten to withdraw his country's troops from Afghanistan because “We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror."

Bravely, insightfully and oh so truthfully and undiplomatically Lantos replied: “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay."

Lantos also averred: “You have to help us, because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany.”

Yes yes yes!!!

It's hard to stomach the constant criticism from Europe when we were the ones who bailed them out of two world wars. It's good to finally hear someone remind them of where they would be without us!

There's my two cents.