NPR played a few minutes from a 2000 interview with Paul Tibbets last night. When the interviewer brought the question around to whether or not he felt any moral pangs, he said something along the lines of “No. We did what we had to do. It’s not a question of morals. War is not moral.” A stark contrast to the holy righteous quest we’re in now.

Paul W. Tibbets Jr., who piloted the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb in combat - an attack that helped end World War II and usher in the atomic age - died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio. (Read More)