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[PEN-L:1694] Re: Re: Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia
>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>I think Truman made a lot of big mistakes (Hiroshima among them), but did a
>>lot more things right.
>
>Mistake? Killing a couple of hundred thousand people to send the Soviets a
>message was just an itsy-bitsy error? Can that kind of reasoning get you a
>Harvard PhD?
>
>Doug
I said that Hiroshima was a big mistake.
I don't *think* it should be classified as a war crime (although perhaps it
should be--certainly the firebombing of Dresden and of Tokyo meet me
standard for war crimes).
Brad DeLong
- Thread context:
- [PEN-L:1697] Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia,
William S. Lear Fri 18 Dec 1998, 16:32 GMT
- [PEN-L:1700] Re: Re: Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia,
sokol Fri 18 Dec 1998, 16:30 GMT
- [PEN-L:1706] Re: Social Democracy and Utopia,
Jim Devine Fri 18 Dec 1998, 16:12 GMT
- [PEN-L:1698] Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia,
sokol Fri 18 Dec 1998, 16:09 GMT
- [PEN-L:1694] Re: Re: Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia,
Brad De Long Fri 18 Dec 1998, 15:57 GMT
- [PEN-L:1695] Re: Re: Re: Re: Very Strange Argument,
sokol Fri 18 Dec 1998, 15:49 GMT
- [PEN-L:1693] Re: Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia,
Jim Devine Fri 18 Dec 1998, 15:46 GMT
- [PEN-L:1692] Re: Re: Re: Very Strange Argument,
sokol Fri 18 Dec 1998, 15:18 GMT
- [PEN-L:1690] Re: Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia,
Doug Henwood Fri 18 Dec 1998, 15:18 GMT
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