Hiroshima redux

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This, from a leading "liberal", in today's NYT:

     It feels unseemly to defend  the vaporizing of two cities, events
     that are  regarded in some  quarters as among the  most monstrous
     acts of the 20th century.  But we owe it to history to appreciate
     that  the greatest  tragedy of  Hiroshima  was not  that so  many
     people were incinerated in an  instant, but that in a complex and
     brutal world, the alternatives were worse.

Sounds reminiscent of George Will's assessment that the bombings
were "profoundly moral" deeds.


Bill