[Dan(9698)]

Quoting from your own entry:

” [W]e can not hope to judge such matters unless we ourselves have been submitted to the same pressures, the same provocations, as these men, whose actions are on trial.”

It is obvious that you have never been in a position of making a decision anywhere near like those which had to be made in WWII.

[Alberta's Child]

Why don't you do some research and track down the origins of that quote. It's a poor example to use in defense of government and military leaders in World War II.

The passage in question was from the movie rendition of a court-martial trial during the Boer War in which the government and military leaders were the ones carrying out an outrageous prosecution of their own soldiers.

It's kind of disingenuous for anyone to use a quote from a military lawyer defending court-martialed soldiers for their actions in the heat of battle, to defend government and military leaders in Washington D.C. who weren't making any decisions in the heat of battle back in 1945.