Here there is no why
The Belmont Club offers another must read post:
The belief underlying those anti-war arguments was, in short, an unyielding faith in universal rationality. … And, stirred by that antique idea, the anti-war Socialists gazed across the Rhine and simply refused to believe … in a political movement whose animating principles were paranoid conspiracy theories, blood-curdling hatreds, medieval superstitions, and the lure of murder. At Auschwitz the SS said, ‘Here there is no why.’
Read the whole thing.
