From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 20:57:23 BST
Matt and all those interested in historical accuracy:
Matt said:
The same goes for war. I agree with Michael Walzer that there are just and
unjust wars. I'm no hawk, but neither am I an ignorant pacifist who thinks
that entering into WW II was unjustifiable. I don't care if we went into WW
II to help the Jews or not. I don't care if their genocide was the direct,
or even indirect, cause of our entrance. The fact is, we did go into WW II
and we did save a lot of Jews. That, I think, is reason enough, if even
retrospectively, to view WW II as a justifiable war. Sometimes, on rarer
and rarer occasions, military action can be justified.
dmb says:
Pardon me for butting in with a tanget, but I just want to point out that
the USA was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and Germany declared
war on the USA a few days later. Entering WW2 was hardly a matter of choice,
so let's not pretend we did it for moral reasons. The fact is that millions
of right-wing Americans were very sympathetic to Hitler's cause. Not that
anyone here has said otherwise, but it still seems worth pointing this out.
Thanks.
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