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By Ed Driscoll · November 1, 2007 11:53 PM · Bobos In Paradise · Oh, That Liberal Media! · The Memory Hole · War And Anti-War

Over at the Corner, Mark Krikorian notes that America has been strangely refighting the Pacific War recently:

Gen. Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, has died. He "had requested that there be no funeral or headstone, fearing it would give his detractors a place to protest." Detractors? Protest? He helped win the war and — oh, by the way — saved hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of lives (both American and Japanese), but the left-wingers couldn't stand the fact that he wasn't a self-hater like them. Because, as he said, "I sleep clearly every night." You go on sleeping clearly, general.

Too bad he didn't go to law school, because I'd rather have a man like Tibbets on the Supreme Court rather than Justice John Paul Stevens, who recently told an interviewer that he was "troubled" by the fact there was "so little apparent deliberation or humanitarian consideration" before deciding to kill Adm. Yamamoto in 1943 — the head of the Japanese navy and architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. Humanitarian consideration? We're supposed to wring our hands before killing an enemy commander, on a warplane, in the middle of a war? I don't follow closely the sophistries of the Supreme Court, but if this is the quality of the man's reasoning, no wonder we're in such trouble.

More on Tibbets at Newsbusters, which catches the New York Times minimizing "the role of the atomic bomb--and thus the heroism of Gen. Paul Tibbets--in his obituary today."


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