Is it a life well-lived if ambition and fortune
gained you the role of leader of a wartime nation
at one with other leaders of free democracies
against the forces of fascism striving to dominate
the world order? Where in the course of your role
as a nation's premier you mingled with royalty
aristocracy the power brokers of global corporations
enterprises steeped in the profits of munitions
and the people of the country whose affairs you
administered trusted your judgement. Seated at
the pinnacle of power, reaching decisions that
could bring glory or conversely obloquy you
achieved the former in your time and the latter
when history was written for your decision to
consign to certain death masses of humanity for
whom an evil regime blueprinted mechanisms
of genocide. Faced with the choice of rescuing a
desperate shipload of escapees your response a
classic in inhumane negation: NONE IS TOO MANY.
Your word as final as the fascist solution to destroy
any vestiges of Jewish life and history. The restless
souls of the countless dead the legacy you chose.
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