the goolog, the holocaust. we didn't intervene in time to stop the holocaust. what we know about stalin retrospectively, mao, we didn't intervene. and i think one of the answers to david's question about why the david donald generation was looking for compromise, that was the policy of the 1940s and 1950s. it was a containment policy. we chose maybe we didn't have the power, we chose not to intervene in horrors, a higher scale, lower scale but horrors that were perpetrated against millions of people, we chose not to intervene because we believed that actually by the full containment they would eventually be eradicated. that's what lincoln believed in the 1850s. containment would lead to the end of slavery. now, that's not how it worked out. so it turns out we could say he was wrong, well, he was wrong sort of but right sort of because the containment policy drove the country to civil war and that unleashed the power that brought slavery to an end. i'm just a little uneasy saying in retrospect it was clear that military action was the only option, and that all t