” ... I don’t believe I’ve made any claims to being a historian here, nor have I stated that anyone who is one is above moral reproach. That is all you. I’ve simply attacked historical speculation lacking sufficient proof.
“panting and salivating”
No bias here! ...”
I confess to bias. How astute of JCB to notice.
I AM biased. I favor the troops, officers, supply clerks, industrial workers, scientists, technicians, farm families, managers, officials, even the politicians of the 1940s.
They are to be preferred to today’s comfortable, self-righteous, self-satisfied dilletantes, who are pleased to look down on decisions taken in WWII, and deem themselves morally superior just because they don’t like the fact that the United States used atomic bombs against the enemy.
Plenty of people hold to the conceit that it’s a bad thing to kill the enemy. They strain to move heaven and earth to convince the rest of us that they are smarter and more moral.
I think they’re merely dopey.
“I AM biased. I favor the troops, officers, supply clerks, industrial workers, scientists, technicians, farm families, managers, officials, even the politicians of the 1940s.”
And I side with Eisenhower here.
“to look down on decisions taken in WWII”
Eisenhower’s own testimony rejects the thesis that the atomic bomb was the only available option.
“deem themselves morally superior”
Again, please point out where I’ve said I’m morally superior.