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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CLEMSON.BITNET!DGPAZ
  3. Message-ID: <HISTORY%92112309420140@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
  5. Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:40:00 EST
  6. Sender:       History <HISTORY@PSUVM.BITNET>
  7. From:         DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET
  8. Subject:      Re: Presidents who studied abroad
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  11. On Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:19:43 EST Lenny <LABBEY@GTRI01.BITNET> said:
  12. > Denis, what about Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower?  They took    t
  13. > part in massive bombing of civilians.  Were they war criminals?
  14. > If they were not, then how were they different from LBJ.
  15.  
  16. Good question -- and what about Harry Truman, who ordered
  17. the use of nuclear weapons in Japan?
  18.  
  19. I suppose that there are degrees of criminality. Certainly
  20. our domestic law recognizes degrees of criminality,
  21. mitigating factors, &c &c. I believe that the war
  22. crimes tribunals after 1945 also recognized this point.
  23. So I suppose that one could ask whether the use of
  24. methods that failed to distinguish between combatants
  25. and noncombatants was as central to the strategies of
  26. the WWII people as it was to the strategies of LBJ and
  27. the Vietnam people.
  28.  
  29. Denis Paz
  30. Department of History
  31. Clemson University
  32. South Carolina, U.S.A.
  33.