TOKYO
Posted on 08/05/2015 1:34:09 PM PDT by DFG
Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I’m wondering if we’ve come even one step closer to a moral reckoning with our status as the world’s only country to use atomic weapons to slaughter human beings. Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun? Will it absorb the way they instantly vaporized thousands of victims, incinerated tens of thousands more, and created unimaginably powerful shockwaves and firestorms that ravaged everything for miles beyond ground zero? Will it finally come to grips with the “black rain” that spread radiation and killed even more people — slowly and painfully — leading in the end to a death toll for the two cities conservatively estimated at more than 250,000?
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Slap this idiot. Hard. Slap him again.
Why don’t we ask the folks in Nan King how they feel about dropping the bomb on japan or maybe some of the folks who were in detention and prison camps run by the Imperial Army? I’m sure the Koreans don’t feel too bad.
Idiots like this would have preferred the Japs and
Nazis had incinerated the US.
Victimhood carried to it’s logical conclusion.
Will obama officially apologize this year or next? When would it benefit him the most? this year because the republican debate is on the same day as the anniversary.
Maybe victimhood carried to it’s illogical conclusion.
The nukes, by making invasion unnecessary, saved more lives than they took.
Christian is an ignorant fool
The B29’s bombing out of the Marianas killed magnitudes more people and destroyed more cities than the bombs at Hiroshima or Nagasaki
We are cursed today with the peace mongers that flatulate over death and destruction. The purpose of war is to kill your enemy.
The peace mongers don’t realize that peace is the merely temporary hiatus between wars
My father was fighting in the Philippines and said he would have been sent to Japan next. So, I would like to formally say, Thank You to those who fought for our freedom and for those that decided to drop the bomb and save my life.
The liberal view I’ve heard is that we should have told the Japanese that we had the bomb. And then warn them to surrender before it was dropped.
Liberal comedian Jon Stewart comfortable in 70 years of hindsight, said that we should have dropped the bomb offshore from Japan, to demonstrate its power. Then tell them if they don’t surrender the next one would be dropped on them.
Yes, they did.
However idiots ( pardon me for repeating myself ) like this
would have gone for a settled peace after Pearl Harbor
and before Midway.
It was really nothing compared to the fire raids on other cities. They started it and America whooped their asses good.
Some one needs to post the before and after pictures of Hiroshima vs. Detroit.
Traitorous attitudes like this is why we have to fight politically correct wars in this era. F him. I was born in Korea. The Japanese occupied Korea from the early 1900s until 1945 when, thanks to the Americans finally forcing Imperial Japan to surrender, they were booted out. Silly hipsters can look back on it now and cluck cluck his disapproval all he wants. Dropping of the A-bombs saved countless more lives than it took.
Dear Chrisie,
Which of the American troops which would have died in taking the Japanese mainland would you have marked for death?
Just wondering.
Will there be a test afterwards?
The U.S. dropped a bomb on Hiroshima.
The Japanese didn’t surrender.
Three days later, the U.S. dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. Had the Japanese surrendered after the first bomb, there wouldn’t have been a second bomb.
Too stupid to consider that fact, I guess.
There have been some rather hot discussions on this subject here over the years.
On one side were the people who maintain if we had dropped a nuke on an empty island, it would have sent the message to Japan to give up. On the other side are the people (and I include myself in this group) who point out that there were those in the Japanese military who did not want to surrender even after to nukes. There was a coup planned to continue the war that was disrupted by bombers.
TOKYO
Nope, I don't regret it one bit.
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