“In war, the question of who did what to whom can’t be ignored, but above and beyond that, there’s the perspective of humanity, don’t you agree? Things that human beings should and shouldn’t do, period. Making excuses by comparing yourself with others—I’m not as bad as the other guy; my country’s not as bad as theirs—that sort of relativism is just aggressors trading winks. It’s ugly. I can’t accept it. Victimhood in war is absolute, isn’t it? You can’t just say, ‘The bombing of Nagasaki and the London air raids were both awful, so let’s drop the subject.’ That can never happen. It mustn’t
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