Writes Ralph Raico:

I’ve been sorting my many files, preparing them for shipment to the Mises Institute, and came across a clipping I particularly cherish. On May 15, 1984, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from Richard Nixon, chiding the American Catholic bishops for their stand against the use of nuclear weapons. Nixon concedes that “the pure morality of the bishops’ conclusion that no deliberate attacks on civilians are acceptable is on its face admirable.” However, “this would have ruled out the use of atomic weapons against Japan,” and thus, he states, lengthening the war in the Far East. Moreover, the bishops’ position would have condemned the firebombing of Dresden and Hamburg. “The question which pure moralists have to face up to is whether allowing Hitler to prevail would have been more moral.” (As if the Nazis were defeated by the Allies massacring German civilians from the air and not by the Red Army crushing the Wehrmacht on the ground.) Here we see how the war crimes of previous Mad Bombers, Roosevelt and Truman, served as precedents for Tricky Dick’s own career as a Mad Bomber. And to think that those bastards died peacefully in their beds.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.