Since you obviously are impaired by a reasoning process that peaked in junior high school let me make this very clear.
It has nothing to do with unfortunate loss of life for other reasons.
It has everything to do with trivializing the HOLOCAUST. From 1978 to 1985 I worked with the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. This organization was formed in the ashes of WWII to relocate the millions of refugees who were stranded in Europe. It worked in refugee camps and it hired a lot of its talent from refugees who had lost all of their families. In 1978 I joined it and had the great privilege of working with real Holocaust survivors. Nothing made them more angry than the flippant use of the Holocaust in superficial rhetorical rants.
No, the Holocaust is not "easily to happen here" and now to try and back your allegation that an America is experiencing a "low-key holocaust" is just the kind of verbal BS that people will take from a Freeper site and laugh at.
So convoluted is your logic is that you want to build a parallel to Malaria to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Beyond the continued trivialization of the Holocaust you make the following completely untrue statement.
Let us not forget the 3 million who die every year from malaria, a disease that the US could wipe out in a year (as we did in Panama and our own country) for less than we spend in one month on the Iraq war.
You spread careless lies without remorse.
Here are the facts about Malaria;
1) Malaria is a tropical disease. It has never been a widespread public health threat in the United States Malaria is presently endemic in a broad band around the equator, in areas of the Americas, many parts of Asia, and much of Africa; however, it is in sub-Saharan Africa where 85– 90% of malaria fatalities occur.<24> The geographic distribution of malaria within large regions is complex, and malaria-afflicted and malaria-free areas are often found close to each other.<25> In drier areas, outbreaks of malaria can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by mapping rainfall.<26> Malaria is more common in rural areas than in cities; this is in contrast to dengue fever where urban areas present the greater risk.<27> For example, the cities of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are essentially malaria-free, but the disease is present in many rural regions.<28> By contrast, in Africa malaria is present in both rural and urban areas, though the risk is lower in the larger cities.<29> The global endemic levels of malaria have not been mapped since the 1960s. However, the Wellcome Trust, UK, has funded the Malaria Atlas Project<30> to rectify this, providing a more contemporary and robust means with which to assess current and future malaria disease burden.
2) Control of Malaria breeding grounds is tied to a country's over all development Malaria has been eliminated in a number of more advanced developed countries but remains a very large widespread threat. In more advanced third world tropical countries it is easy to eliminate Malaria by attacking their breeding grounds, not by medicine. There is a direct correlation to a country's development status, it's public health system and the degree that Malaria is endemic.
3) There is no vaccine for Malaria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MalariaAlthough some are under development, no vaccine is currently available for malaria; preventive drugs must be taken continuously to reduce the risk of infection. These prophylactic drug treatments are often too expensive for most people living in endemic areas. Most adults from endemic areas have a degree of long-term infection which tends to recur, and also possess partial immunity (resistance); the resistance reduces with time and such adults may become susceptible to severe malaria if they have spent a significant amount of time in non-endemic areas. They are strongly recommended to take full precautions if they return to an endemic area. Malaria infections are treated through the use of antimalarial drugs, such as quinine or artemisinin derivatives, although drug resistance is increasingly common.
4) The United States Army has been a leading world wide agency to advance the research on Malaria. I cannot speak to the current status of their involvement but during the 1980's while working in refugee camps I was surprised to find US Army officers in the camps of Thailand. The reason for my surprise is that there were very few officers attached to the Embassy and this was a large group. There are not a lot of Americans in a refugee camp and after work around the campfire you get to know a lot about people. This was a group of highly motivated American Physicians who were Army officers who were dedicating their lives to the elimination of Malaria. We had members of CDC on our staff and they confirmed that if you wanted to find the latest and best scientific research on Malaria in the world you would rely on this group of American Army officers.
The reason that they were so dedicated to it was because the Army anticipated that at some time there was a good possibility that the US Army would be fighting in the tropics again and that they anticipated that they would lose more lives from Malaria than from combat. The reason for their fear? Malaria was developing into a drug resistant strain for which there was no treatment.
So you are able to trivialize the Holocaust and insult dedicated scientists who are spending long postings in the jungle to try and eliminate tropical disease.
To top it off you coat it all with a patronizing message. I spent 8 years working in Refugee camps and while I didn't get Malaria I did get Dengue Fever
(This is manifested by a sudden onset of severe headache, muscle and joint pains (myalgias and arthralgias—severe pain gives it the name break-bone fever or bonecrusher disease), fever, and rash.<3> The dengue rash is characteristically bright red petechiae and usually appears first on the lower limbs and the chest; in some patients, it spreads to cover most of the body. There may also be gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.)
Just because you have a superficial interest in the suffering of others does not give you license to rip the meaning of words as you do when you flippantly do remarking in a Palinesque way that the Holocaust could 'easily' happen here. Nobody would be more angry at that depiction than Holocaust survivors.
Your professed interest in the suffering of others does not entitle you to trivialize the Holocaust nor does it entitle you to make up lies about a disease or about those that combat it.
Your professed interest in the suffering of others does not prevent you from making a complete ass out of yourself and the opposite is also true, pointing out the complete idiocy of your statements does not mean that you are not committed to actually doing something to reduce the suffering of others.
If you do think that a 'silent' holocaust is occurring then why are you posting on the internet? Why don't you do something to stop it. Why don't you spend a few years in the underdeveloped world actually doing something to stop it?
Or you could just continue to undermine the real suffering by millions of people who faced real gas chambers, real torture, real medical experimentation by making flippant trendy and completely inaccurate historical references. 
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