[Benoit Baldwin]

To: Peggy Noonan: The Devil Within

>He stopped or thwarted communism wherever he could, fought
>like a tiger, faced down the most admired American general 
>of the day and canned him for overstepping his bounds, 
>made the crucial and horrific decision to drop the atom 
>bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and took the responsibility
>himself to the extent that when the head of the Manhattan 
>Project came to him and said he feared he had blood on his 
>hands, Truman took out his handkerchief and wiped J. 
>Robert Oppenheimer's hands, and said no, I made the 
>decision, the responsibility is mine. 
>
>Harry Truman was a great man. 

No man personally responsible for the death of a single human being was, is, or ever shall be, a great man.

[ChemistCat]

What the HECK are you talking about?

[onyx]

Forgot to take your anti-clymer meds again? Double the dose!

[BushMeister]

No man personally responsible for the death of a single human being was, is, or ever shall be, a great man.

Dumbest thing I've ever heard. And a pathetic attempt at sounding *profound*

Oooooohhhhhh...

[whoever]

What about a man who prevented the deaths of millions? Would he be a great man in your eyes? Pres. Truman did that.

[walden]

"No man personally responsible for the death of a single human being was, is, or ever shall be, a great man."

"A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

-John Stuart Mill

Guess we know which category you fall into.

[occam's chainsaw]

No man personally responsible for the death of a single human being was, is, or ever shall be, a great man.

What a baldwin!

[nopardons]

Then, I take it that you don't think that George Washington was a " great " man either.

I guess that you feel utter contempt for Jesus Christ too. After all, many of his followers have been killed for believing in HIM.

Sometimes it would be better for you to THINK about what your words mean, BEFORE you post a reply. : - )

[Old Student]

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. President Truman also saved at least a million American lives, and perhaps many millions of Japanese lives. He did it by making a very hard decision. I'm sure it haunted him all his remaining days, too.

It would have been much worse if he had not done so.

[auggy]

"REALITY"

? In war, a statement like yours is treason. You are sir, a traitor.