&#62; I fail to see how intellectuals are deeply at fault in your list of Godwinian examples. Each nation's military was far more deeply involved in all of those horror stories yet we love our troops and our military.<p>The intellectuals are deeply at fault because it was the intellectuals who gave the orders.  The militaries just carried them out.<p>You can argue that the pilot of the Enola Gay had some responsibility of the bombing of Hiroshima.  However, it's absurd to argue that FDR and Truman had less responsibility for that bombing.