This thought has been on my mind some

I was reading Jim Lobe's blog on Neocon humiliation and something tangential leapt out at me.

I quote:

Indeed, it was shortly after the war that Podhoretz steered ‘Commentary,’ the flagship publication of the American Jewish Committee, sharply to the right on foreign-policy issues, in particular, and that Rabbi Meir Kahane, who popularized the slogan “Never Again” with its multiple connotations of humiliation, shame, militancy, and rage coming out of the Holocaust, founded the Jewish Defense League. (This was before “Never Again” was appropriated by anti-genocide movements that wanted to make the idea universal, rather than specific to Jews, as Kahane had intended.)

(The whole thing is worth reading, this is a tangential thought, so only a snippet of a quote.)

I'd been thinking about "Never again" and the easy, and the hard, lessons that one can learn from something like the Holocaust.

The easy lesson is: Never again, to us.

The hard lesson is: Never again, not to anyone.