The Ironic Virtue of Holocaust Denial

Jonah Goldberg at The Corner makes an interesting point about the psychopathic leader of Iran with respect to his views about the Holocaust. The money quote:

The need to deny the Holocaust establishes the importance of the Holocaust. Ahmadinejad and his ilk need to call it a myth because if such a horrror actually happened the moral consequences would be too enormous to ignore. Why else say it's a myth? Denying the historical reality of the Holocaust concedes the moral arguments which flow from it. In much the same way hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue, Holocaust denial is the homage evil men pay to absolute standards of good and evil.