Lawrence M. Vance speaks out against an evil that governments do.
The problem with World War II is that people ternd to assume that because Hitler was so evil, any and all measures taken to win in WWII were justified, and anyone who fought Hitler must have been a good guy.
In reality, the allies, including even the freer allies, England and America (i.e. as opposed to the Soviet Union), did some pretty crappy things.
The point of this post isn't to bash the US, but to point out that we need to realize that we can do wrong, too.
Why is this important? Because if you refuse to ask questions about whether or not we committed atrocities in World War II, you will start justifying anything our government does by referenceing Worldd War II. Why is it bad to raze Fallujah? We did it to Dresden, Germany, and surely you don't object tothat, do you? I mean, if we hadn't incinerated a bunch of civilians, how could we have defeated Hitler?
And of course, there is the fact that we returned Soviet prisoners of war to the USSR, even when they didn't want to go.
In any case, we should never trust any government too much, not even our own.
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