War Crimes

 

Were they really war crimes? I mean did the U.S. ever have concentration camps? Did the U.S. ever put wholesale innocent people in ovens, and gas chambers? Or do unethical tests on kidnapped people? No on all accounts. So, no, we weren't guilty of real war crimes. Were we guilty of breaking the law, yes, I wasn't there, but I can figure out that to fight evil, we must get down on the same level. We must do that without losing our humanity, because that is the only thing there is remaining to glean from that situation.

 

There is no winning, nor is there any morality, killing is killing, and it is all bad, no matter the reason. No matter how much we try to justify it. Thing is, for us as a country to exist, we must fight and kill for that existence. This idea that there are rules that make it ok to kill, is pure fantasy. We need good men doing bad things to bad men for the good, the bad, and the indifferent, without losing our humanity as an individual or country. They made the hard decisions, and did what needed to be done without a purpose of evasion, and still kept their humanity. That is why they are the Greatest Generation.