Post-WWII credo of ‘never forget’ is sadly as relevant as ever

The AP’s documenting of the mass graves in Iraq and Syria has led to barely an eyebrow being raised in the West, writes Andrew Nagorski.

MORE mass graves are discovered in Iraqi and Syrian territory formerly held by the mass murderers known as IS, and the news no longer shocks anyone. Nor does the fact that most Christians who have not yet fled the region, along with other minorities, live in constant terror of more atrocities and executions.

After the horrors of the Holocaust, we were supposed to live by the credo “never forget”, a phrase meant to apply both to past mass killings and to preventing similar actions in the future, whatever the body counts.