Michael Walzer

Interesting interview with Michael Walzer, liberal writer on ethics: http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=163. See his answer to the "ticking time bomb" question. Though I haven't read any of his books, I probably differ with him on his view of how America should fight a ruthless enemy who doesn't share its same values. He points out Nazi Germany as a country with vile attributes that the Unites States fought largely in a manner that Walzer associates with the best ideals of this country. Maybe. He conveniently didn't point out the combat in the Pacific Theater. Over there, all of that Saturday Evening Post shit went out the window in island encounters with the Japanese. Talk to any veteran of that combat and it won't be about sharing tea and biscuits with vanquished enemy prisoners.