Certainly The Finest Video Smackdown Ever Made

Watch this video. Although he's since recanted, Jon Stewart recently called President Truman a war criminal for the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. That view seems to be growing. Make that argument if you like, but make it from a position of knowledge. Refute this, eg. I learned a lot I didn't know, but the best thing about this argument is its utter refutation of the notion that those of us with no responsibility and no intimate knowledge whatever can stand in easy judgment over men at war. I can't embed, but do follow the link. It's well worth it.

On a related note, here's Condoleeza Rice speaking with Stanford students about torture/enhanced interrogation. Almost the same point on a smaller scale.



Curtsy: Brutally Honest

I mean, we're not a'goin' fishin' as ninme points out: