In nothing new under the sun, the Curmudgeonly Clerk notes accurately that many prior administrations have done quite horrible things in wartime. He notes the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, and the Japanese internments as examples of FDR's wartime moral failings. To which one might of course add the general conduct of the anti-insurgency campaigns in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, the bombing of Cambodia, most of the century-long campaign against Native American tribes, just to name a few.
From this basis, he concludes I was wrong to approvingly quote Kevin Drum saying that “Under this administration, we seem to have lost the simple level of moral clarity that allowed our predecessors to tell right from wrong.”
