On Monday the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, likened the crisis in Syria to what he called 'the Holocaust'. He also warned against the shame of doing nothing to stop it. David Cameron was utterly wrong to describe what is happening in Syria as a 'Holocaust' -- even to compare it to a holocaust. He is either demeaning the English language or simply engaging in cheap and ugly politicizing. He is playing a similar game to that of Leftists who describe everyone who dares to disagree with them as being a 'fascist', 'racist' or, nowadays, 'Islamophobic'. The Holocaust against the Jews was a systematic attempt to wipe out an entire racial group. Six million Jews were killed in that attempt. Bashar Assad, on the other hand, in engaged in a civil war with Sunni militants and Islamists. The entire stability of Assad's nation, Syria, is being threatened. He is not attempting to wipe out an entire ethnic or religious group. In terms of numbers, Cameron's got it all wrong too. How can...(Read Full Post)