MAREK EDELMAN fué uno de cabecillas del levantamiento de 1943 en gueto judío de Varsovia. De hecho, es el último que sobrevive tras toda un vida a sus espaldas luchando contra el totalitarismo. Arthur Chrenkoff, el blogger austalian, traduce una entrevista aparecida en medios de comunicación polacos en que habla sobre la guerra de Iraq:

Interviewer: But there are people who say it's not our business.

Edelman: And whose business is it? Every war with fascism is our business. In 1939 there were also many people who said that the war in Poland was not their war, and what happened? Great nations fell because politicians listened to those who were saying that it's not worth dying for Gdansk [Danzig]. If only we'd intervened militarily after Hitler re-entered Rhineland we probably would not have had the war and the Holocaust.

Interviewer: Many people do understand that, but they don't understand why the Americans have to go to the other side of the world and fight over Iraq now.

Edelman: And why did they go to Europe then? Who defeated Hitler and saved Europe from fascism? The French? No, the Americans did. We thanked them then because they saved us. Today we criticise them because they're saving somebody else.

Una lectura que es un bálsamo moral.