According to one who was present, Churchill suddenly blurted out: "Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"

According to one who was present, Churchill suddenly blurted out: "Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"
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by acknowledging that we do not "have clean hands ourselves," we would be in a far stronger position to condemn "the people who plunged the world into war and carried out gross crimes under its cover." As matters stand now, we are at the very least open to the charge of hypocrisy. ·

my German ex girlfriend's father when he was a child and a refugee pulled bodies out of the ruins of destroyed Dresden
he still won't talk about it even to his family
i believe WW2 was a battle of light against dark but we did not emerge pure
on certain occasions our moral integrity was a casualty of war

According to one who was present, Churchill suddenly blurted out: "Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"

This is a well written article, makes me really want to know more.

One can easily come to this same conclusion just by readin Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"; it is good to see solid research behind it. One hopes it will be incorporated in the curriculum of War Colleges around the world.

Funny to think that even in the savagery of war, there is still this expectation of some sort of restraint. I suppose this is one viewpoint of an "anti-terrorism" action, the belief that ultimately there may be people who wage war with these weapons and do not have the veneer of civility we demand, even in combat.

So sad, so sad.