[The_Reader_David]

I’ll go beyond that, torture is evil. So is incinerating civilians. But Christian nations long ago learned that in the fallen world, one has to wage war, and to wage war one must do evil things. We Orthodox have canonical penances not just for murder (life-long excommunication with communion on the death-bed only), but for killing in war (three years excommunication — with communion on the death-bed if one is dying within that period), because choosing the lesser evil is still choosing an evil.

I fault neither Bush nor Bush’s CIA, neither Truman nor Truman’s Air Force.

[P-Marlowe]

So what do you think about nuking Hiroshima? Should Truman have faced a war crimes trial?