Senator Robert Taft also believed that it was wrong to put Goering and Goebbels on trial.
Senator Robert Taft was a nutball.
“Senator Robert Taft also believed that it was wrong to put Goering and Goebbels on trial.
Senator Robert Taft was a nutball.”
Senator Taft didn’t like the idea of a world court. It’s still a silly idea. The people of Germany could have tried them, not the “world community” and the “crimes against humanity” crowd.
Senator Robert Taft also believed that it was wrong to put Goering and Goebbels on trial.”
Actually, what he believed is that any precedent that sets up a court that could in theory be used against Americans is unconstitutional on its face. As a matter of constitutional principle, he was (and remains) very obviously right. He also believed that any sort of world court action including Nuremberg would do little to deter future conflicts. He was obviously right about that as well (though there were other reasons to prosecute, it’s just that one of the articulated ones was bogus). He also questioned whether a fair trial could be given to those prosecuted by the victors. That seems to be obviously, true, also. Why should we pretend that something which should essentially be a military action is a judicial one? We are just pretending, then, and that makes a mockery of our constitutional system. I think at the end of the day, Taft would have gladly supported summary execution in the field of Goering and Goebbels and others rather than putting them on trial.
That is hardly a nutball opinion.
Your name calling of a great conservative reveals who is the nutball. And it ain’t Senator Taft.