It wasn't the US that death camp inmates feared
The fact that the US stayed out of the World War II until they were attacked proves their belligerence was not, in fact, rampant.
I'm sure that, by the time the US entered the war, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and the people of Russia would have been more concerned about the belligerence of Nazi Germany.
The civilian Jews, gypsies, gays, disabled and other people who were at that stage already being forced into concentration camps hardly feared American belligerence. The same applies to the peoples of Asia under the Japanese onslaught.
I think Mr Carroll should check his history to assess the relative strengths of the various powers at the outset of WWII. The US was heavily trailing
practically every other major power on the globe with regard to its military strength. It was no superpower.
I also think he should reassess his claim that it was an imperialistic war. For most nations and peoples it was a war of survival. For some it was an act of opportunity. For others like France, Britain and the Americans' Europe-first strategy, it was sacrifice in defence of the freedom of others. Imperialism had little to do with it.
Whatever Mr Carroll feels about the current role of the US in the world, his attempt to blame WWII on a country that helped save mankind from the abyss makes light of the evil that was done. It paints a picture that is false, and when we talk of WWII, that is perhaps more dangerous than a US destroyer sailing into Castletownbere as part of a commemoration. Mr Carroll is right in one aspect... it's incredible how history can so easily be turned on its head.
Brian Collins,
Cavan Road,
Kells,
Co Meath.
