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Entry: Our Very Own War Criminals Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/our_very_own_war_criminals#187 Post contents: I can agree with you on some points in your dialogue here, but your interpretation of history is much akin to “monday-morning quarterbacking.” You agreed with Germans being tried for war-crimes, and that Russians “should have swung too.” But you also called for US and British men to hang for the air attacks on Dresden—that, sir, was an act of combat against an enemy in wartime. It is so easy for you to look back and judge such regrettable but necessary acts like that and say “oh what evil men we were” but you are here today engaging in this feel-good drivel precisely because these men did the dirty work of bringing down the Third Reich. Your words, in retrospect, are a testament to the victory your grandfathers won for you: they secured a world of unprecedented comfort for you, a safe world of such ease and wealth that you can take the time to thoroughly scrutinize every act of war as wrong. Had you been on the receiving end of a German machine gun built in Dresden or Hannover, you would feel quite differently. I am in agreement on the Iran situation. But please, readers of this blog, please wake up: the world is a dangerous and ugly place. While certainly our most noble endeavor is to be the best human being we can be, a “realpolitik” realization that there are evil men in this world who need to be confronted (I’m talking about Al-Qaeda here) is necessary. I understand these comments have veered from the article’s main point, and my apologies. Dresden was a necessary but ugly act. Had one of your children been in uniform at the time you too, would have agreed. Please wake up and “welcome to the jungle,” as an American rock star put it a decade and a half ago. Sent at: 2008 07 06