| This wasn't an act of terrorism or similar scenario. It was the use of a new weapon on a declared enemy country, and was believed to be the best way to end the war. In that sense, Tibbets must have felt he was following lawful orders from his superiors in a time of war. It wasn't his place to question the extremely relative morality of the use of the bomb.
I place no blame whatsoever on the man for doing what he did. There ARE, of course, situations where morality demands a soldier question, or even disobey an order, but this wasn't one of those times.
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |