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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
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