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Article Source: Townhall"It's fun to be idealistic in a world of moral absolutes. I know because I'm a columnist. But when we start discussing history, things always seem to get complicated. "
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"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. "
My brother told me something that I hadn't heard up to that point a few years ago--"History is always told by the victor."
You can take from it what you want, but it made a lot of sense to me why I had only learned the one side of the story growing up. Yet, being of German descent (and living in a community that largely was also), my family had always instilled a sense of pride in our heritage. It wasn't until college (about 10 years after I should have gone), that I learned the other side of the story for many wars and problems in the world. Personally, I would like to see WWII and the dropping of the atomic bombs was a turning point in human history--that maybe, just maybe, some of us get that killing and hurting each other isn't the way to get ahead. Education really is the key--however, if your education is based on some archaic sense of religion or society, you may not get the whole story.
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