He is the US Ambassador to the Netherlands. You know, the country the allies liberated from the Germans? The place in which Anne Frank lived in an attic for two years before the Nazis found her and shipped her off to Auschwitz? What’s wrong with him?
War is an insane human compulsion and the death and suffering it causes is the most terrible waste in human experience. But this is a very weird way for an American ambassador to acknowledge that and frankly, knowing Hoekstra’s politics, I believe he probably feels a special affinity for WWII era Germany.