davidl on August 6th, 2010

Sixty five years ago today,  one United States warplane dropped one bomb on one  Japaneses city, Hiroshima and killed what a hundred thousand Japanese civilians; men, women, children. from Bruce McQuain, Q and O:

[I]t is the annual Hiroshima

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davidl on November 12th, 2009

The purpose of an Army has been described as kill people and break things.   As such people who excel at leading units dedicated to such tasks, killing people and breaking things, are not noted for nuance.   Case in point,  William

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davidl on May 10th, 2009

This one has long baffled me, George W. Bush is claimed to be war criminal because he had three, count em, terrorists interrogated.   Winston Churchill was supposed to be a war criminal because he ordered the fire bombing of Dresden

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