s toward the same act. Harry Truman spoke noblistically about the war effort and the actions, I.E. Hiroshima, which he condoned. The issue as espoused by Walzer and Fussell assume a somewhat different color when viewed from the perspective of the President of the U.S. with the various political, military and international (legal) considerations. Stylistically, there is a contrast between the two authors. In the case of Paul Fussell, I would characterize his discourse as more literary, although by comparison weaker philosophically. Walzer approaches the infamous event from a greater philosophical and moral perspective, in which he (in my opinion) succeeds in making his case. This is not to say that Hiroshima was necessarily a good thing or a bad thing, but from a philosophical and moralistic perspective, Walzer appears more erudite. However, erudition and literacy aside, there are serious implications and pronouncements in the writings of Paul Fussell within his more dramatic and figurative essay. He writes as a man who has known and seen battle and expresses himself from a vantage perspective which is both practical and moral....
