“And then we start sometimes creating what’s called a ‘circular firing squad,’ where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.“, former President Barack Obama speaking at an event hosted by “The Obama Foundation” in Berlin, Germany

Seems like a lot of chutzpah giving a speech as the keynote speaker at an event hosted by yourself, but I digress.

What I find interesting is that President Obama felt he needed to explain the concept of a “circular firing squad” is to the German audience. He should have used the more colloquial description of a “Polish Firing Squad” and then all the Germans would have collectively said “Yah, Ich verstehen“; “Yes, I understand”.

No one ever called it a “circular firing squad”. Everyone used to use the more ‘racist’ term Polish Firing Squad.  And we all know how the Germans treated the Poles in World War II.

But then I grew up in racist America.