It’s easy to have contempt for these pacifists of WW ll. But I object to trashing Gandhi: he was being totally consistent and he abhorred Nazism. He was opposed to war on moral grounds and was no Jew hater. Our cause was just, but at the end we were becoming more and more callous and brutal. Initially we condemned the Nazis for bombing of Warsaw, Guernica and Rotterdam but at the end of the war we were burning a Japanese city off the map every 4 days. Does it matter what the actual statistics of deaths in Dresden? It was an act of horror, even Germans have souls. It was not our finest hour. More people died in the Tokyo firestorm than the Atomic attacks. Yes, they started the war and were brutal as heck but let’s look at our souls and methods if we want to make any claims to moral superiority. It seems that today’s cons can’t get beyond Munich and Auschwitz and the logic that engenders where there is no limit to what we should do to the enemy.
