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Atrocities in the 'Good War': A Tract for Today, by Robert Higgs, 19 Jun 2006
With excerpt of "One War is Enough", Feb 1946 Atlantic Monthly article by Edgar L. Jones
"It is not my intention either to excuse our late opponents or to discredit our own fighting men. I do, however, believe that all of us ... should fully understand the horror and degradation of war before talking so casually of another one. War does horrible things to men, our own sons included. It demands the worst of a person and pays off in brutality and maladjustment." |
Not Just Japanese Americans: The Untold Story of U.S. Repression During 'The Good War', by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, The Journal of Historical Review, 1986
"All the aforementioned events, entailing enormous gains for State power, occurred ... at a time when the United States was technically at peace. The Japanese attack ... merely accelerated the civil liberties trends already in motion. ... The internment of Japanese-Americans was ... representative of a wartime administration that respected civil liberties only so far as political expediency required." |
The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, by John T. Flynn, Oct 1945
"By January 1, 1941, Roosevelt had decided to go to war with Japan ... He felt the moment to provoke the attack had come by November ... He was completely sure the Japanese would not strike at Pearl Harbor ... he completely miscalculated ... When the attack came he was appalled and frightened. He dared not give the facts to the country." |
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Machiavelli and U.S. Politics, Part 5: War Crimes and Atrocities, by Lawrence M. Ludlow, 24 Aug 2005
Related Topics: Politics, Vietnam
"President Truman's bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a prime example. Those nuclear explosions yielded approximately 200,000 innocent civilian victims. Their real purpose was to 'send a message' to America's World War II ally, the Soviet Union, informing its leaders that the United States indeed possessed a formidable weapon." |
The Myth of War Prosperity, Part 1, by Anthony Gregory, Freedom Daily, Dec 2006
Related Topics: War, Broken Window Fallacy
Review of Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs
"Certainly, the mainstream conservative dedication to free enterprise, if it exists at all, is not so robust as to challenge the economic fallacies underlying World War II. On the Left, Right, and Center, the idea that Franklin Roosevelt dragged America out of its economic rut is by now as American as apple pie. But World War II, whatever else can be said of it, was probably the largest government program in American history ..." |
The War System and Its Intellectual Myths, by Murray N. Rothbard, Harry Elmer Barnes: Learned Crusader, 1968
Related Topics: War, Cold War, Democracy, Foreign Entanglements, Japan, Military Industrial Complex, George Orwell, Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
Originally titled "Harry Elmer Barnes as Revisionist of the Cold War"
"Two ... examples are the policy of Finland toward Russia in 1940, and of Poland toward Germany and Russia in 1939. The Finns (Poles) insisted up to the moment of outbreak ... that the Russians (Germans) were only 'bluffing,' and that a rigid, inflexible, hard-line, no-negotiation policy would force Russia (Germany) to back down and cease their demands." |
Warring as Lying Throughout American History, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Feb 2008
Related Topics: War, American War Between the States, Gulf War, Ronald W. Reagan
Recounts how U.S. Presidents and their administrations since James Polk have lied about wars, from start to finish
"In August 1945, Harry Truman announced to the world that 'the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, in so far as possible, the killing of civilians.' Hiroshima was actually a major city with more than a third of a million people prior to its incineration. But Truman's lie helped soften the initial impact on the American public of the first use of the atomic bomb." |
Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism, by Peter Klein, Mises.org Daily Article, 15 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Economists
"World War II ... was a watershed event for the profession. For the first time, professional economists joined the ranks of government planning bureaus en masse ... it is likely the taste of central planning that economists — even nominally free-market economists — got during World War II that forever changed the direction of the discipline." |
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