My 16-year-old son and I have just finished reading historian David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, “Truman.”
I suggest before the author of “An international criminal (6/2)” enters the public debate over President Harry S. Truman’s use of the atom bomb in the war against Japan, he might want to better inform himself of the entire history of the matter and the man so as to be able to intelligently participate in a truly meaningful and probing discussion and/or editorializing.
McCullough’s biography on Truman is a great place to start.
The comparison of Truman to Osama bin Laden and suggestion of moral equivalence is obviously the result of a woefully superficial understanding of each man and each situation — their characters, lives and context — and is ludicrous in the extreme.
Mark and Samuel Butler
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