G. Died for Your Sins.

Glenn Greenwald's got balls of steel. Not just anyone would pretend to take Hugh Hewitt seriously without a book to sell.

And yet!

The whole interview is chock full of awesome, but this part is my favorite, in which Hugh professes to forget Fat Man and Little Boy.

HH: Did America fight World War II proportionately?

GG: No.

HH: It didn’t?

GG: Not in the sense that I just described. Now again, I don’t think that America fought it disproportionately, violated the laws of war that govern proportionality, but there were certainly morally questionable acts that were undertaken…

HH: Such as?

GG: …at the end of the day, well, such as the use of two nuclear weapons to incinerate and vaporize hundreds of thousands of Japanese at once, and have radiation lingering for generations in their country. [...]

Oh. Snap.