New at Reason: David Harsanyi on Terrorism, Torture, and the Dangers of Making Simplistic Historical Comparisons

May 6, 2009

It's fun to be idealistic in a world of moral absolutes. But when we start discussing history, things always seem to get complicated. Take President Barack Obama. As David Harsanyi writes, if Obama really believes, as he recently stated, that the nation "lost its moral bearings" under his predecessor, Obama will have a hard time defending any presidency. After all, if waterboarding is a war crime, the dropping of an atomic bomb on a few hundred thousand innocent civilians surely deserves some serious consideration for rebuke. At the very least, it's a fair topic for discussion.

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