Why did the Germans take moral responsibility for what happened with the Jews but the Americans did not? .... read more
If one compares military decisions made by Truman to contemporary episodes that are called war crimes (the bombing of East Ghouta in Syria is a recent example), then Harry Truman definitely deserves to be labeled a war criminal. However, at least as regards WWII, it is necessary to look at the situation. read more
President Truman may have been a lot of things, but a war criminal was not one of them. Nor were the atomic bomb drops on Hirsohima and Nagasaki acts of terrorism. President Truman was a man faced with a situation so terrible that the dropping of two atomic bombs was the most merciful solution he had available to him. read more
They were both war crimes, of course. And they were both based on a Big Lie. read more