[Right Wing Professor]

Any man who would prefer death to bearing arms and in the same breath defame the soldiers with the balls to do same is far from great.

This would be the man who wrote to Roosevelt to inform him of the potential of atomic weapons, and to urge him to begin construction of one to use against Hitler?

Einstein was philosophically a pacifist, true, but when faced with real evil, he chose to fight it using the most powerful weapons available.

[jwalsh07]

"To his friend Linus Pauling, another famous scientist, Einstein said: “I made one mistake in my life when I signed that letter to President Roosevelt advocating that the atomic bomb should be built. But perhaps I can be forgiven because we all felt that there was a high probability that the Germans were working on this problem and would use the atomic bomb to become the master race.”"

He also opposed its use in Japan. But that is neither here nor there, there are two sides to that discussion.

Would you like to defend his execrable remarks about the men who bare arms in defense of themselves and their country or do you think such remarks are not characteristic of "great men"?

[grey_whiskers]

Einstein was philosophically a pacifist, true, but when faced with real evil, he chose to fight it using the most powerful weapons available.

Do you have any information about his opinions concerning the gulags? Either way?