President Bush toured Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust yesterday and made an emotional remark that the US should have bombed Auschwitz. Maybe so, but if guilt is to be assigned, how about the USSR?Speaking as someone whose mother survived Auschwitz (she worked at an aircraft parts subcontractor there) and whose grandfather did not, I say the following. I am, in general, a lot more concerned about Iran's president Amadinejad's attempt to create the next Auschwitz than about some political platitudes about the last one now. But I will play armchair general here for a bit and discuss all the parties involved.  There have been many conflicting arguments about why there were no concerted efforts by the Allies to bomb Auschwitz. The distances were too great, some say, or the inadvertent killing of inmates would have been a impermissible battle cost, one that few US airmen wanted on their conscience. There was, in fact, one US air raid that did attempt to bomb the military...(Read Full Post)