Victor Davis Hanson: Apologist for Mass Murder
August 21, 2025
He defends the atomic bombing of Japan. It was a “terrible decision, but the alternatives were even worse.” There is one alternative that was not worse: Not dropping the bombs at all. David Henderson takes down Hanson here.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
The Donkey and the Tiger Re-Revisited