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Part of the job description? How about conscription, how does that play into the equation? The perennial "Bash the US for dropping the atomic bombs" really jus
by 67726e 11y ago
Part of the job description? How about conscription, how does that play into the equation?
The perennial "Bash the US for dropping the atomic bombs" really just needs to stop. You're judging actions that happened 70 years ago by your standards you hold today. The question you need to be concerned over is, "What would we do in this day and age faced with a similar situation?"
- skrebbel 11y agoYeah, you're right, I edited that "part of the job description" stuff out again. Sorry for making you respond to something that was only in my comment for 3 minutes. All that said, I'm not judging any actions, I'm not sure where you got that from. The GP said that the remarks made by the pilot were "unassailable". I just pointed out that that's nonsense because while it's a sane argument, there's also a sane argument against it. It's been many years and there's been no US bashing in this thread up until now, but absolute statements on the morality of what happened, in either direction, just don't seem to make sense anymore.
- scottjad 11y ago> The perennial "Bash the US for dropping the atomic bombs" really just needs to stop. You're judging actions that happened 70 years ago by your standards you hold today. Plenty of people in the day opposed it as well. Here are quotes from Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral William D. Leahy (Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman), Herbert Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur, etc: http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htm http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htm