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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