Syria's Assad and regime DESERVE everything they're about to get from the U.S. And the West

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Oh and this needs another response

It's funny to imagine what you peace purists would have said when the U.S. Was about to go to war with Germany and the concentration camps were gassing millions of Jews.

So let me introduce some nuance that you surely do not know

In January 1944, after learning from Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. that the State
Department was obstructing rescue efforts, Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board to
coordinate governmental and private efforts to rescue those who might still be saved. The
Board is credited with saving at least 200,000 Jews. Critics argue that if FDR had acted earlier,
and more boldly, even more lives could have been saved.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/holocaust.pdf

Morgenthau wanted more than what the allies did to Germany by the way. He wanted the full and utter destruction of the industrial base in the Rhine.

You might want to check this

In “FDR and the Jews,” Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, professors at American University, contend that Roosevelt hardly did everything he could. But they maintain that his overall record — several hundred thousand Jews saved, some of them thanks to little-known initiatives — exceeds that of any subsequent president in responding to genocide in the midst of fierce domestic political opposition.

“The consensus among the public is that Roosevelt really failed,” Mr. Breitman said in a recent interview. “In fact, he had fairly limited options.”

Such statements, backed up by footnotes to hundreds of primary documents (some cited here for the first time), are unlikely to satisfy Roosevelt’s fiercest critics. Even before the book’s March 19 release, the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, a research organization in Washington, has circulated a detailed rebuttal, as well as a rival book, “FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith,” zeroing in on what it characterizes as Roosevelt’s personal desire to limit Jewish immigration to the United States.

But some leading Holocaust historians welcome “FDR and the Jews” for remaining dispassionate in a debate too often marked by anger and accusation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/books/book-tries-for-balanced-view-on-roosevelt-and-jews.html?pagewanted=all

Moreover his policies and refugee issues BEFORE the war were horrific, and I personally know one Holocaust Survivor who was denied entry to the US in 1939. You might want to read on the Ship of the Damned.

Oh and here is more on the issue...

This accusation of immense moral failure — or indifference — is now being addressed by a new book, “FDR and the Jews,” by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman. It sets out to find a middle ground and instead makes things worse. It is a portrait of a president who, in the authors’ own words, “did not forthrightly inform the American people of Hitler’s grisly ‘Final Solution’ or respond decisively to his crimes.” This is a Roosevelt who almost always had a more pressing political concern — American isolationism, American anti-Semitism, a fear and hatred of immigrants — and who stayed mum while a bill to allow 20,000 Jewish children into the United States died in Congress.

Roosevelt inattentively also permitted a cabal of heartless anti-Semites in the State Department to control the country’s visa policies. Desperate Jews, fleeing from the Nazis, were denied asylum in the United States. One of them was Otto Frank. His daughter Anne perished at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Both FDR and his wife, Eleanor, were genteel anti-Semites — although the president had Jewish aides and one close Jewish friend, his neighbor Henry Morgenthau Jr. Eleanor, a woman not afraid to confront her own prejudices, later became a champion of Jewish causes, but the record for the president on this score is hardly as redeeming. As late as 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, he sympathized with a French general’s observation that the Jews were overrepresented in the professions. FDR referenced the “understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews.”

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-11/opinions/37621772_1_fdr-american-anti-semitism-anti-semites

I would be careful of those "purist" accusations. It is obvious that you are pretty ignorant of the debate that has raged in academia (at the very least) about the role of the United States and FDR and the Holocaust.