Posted on 05/10/2016 9:34:31 AM PDT by Zakeet
This month, President Obama will become the first incumbent American president to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.
That bomb - and a second atomic blast on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 - effectively ended World War II; Japan surrendered six days after the Hiroshima bombing. However, the human costs were huge. Estimates of those killed go as high as 150,000, and even for those who survived, it was a hellish, life-altering experience.
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In the first Gallup poll from 1945 just after the bombings, a huge 85 percent of Americans approved the bombings. However, figures from 2005 show a significant decline to 57 percent. Meanwhile, another poll conducted by the Detroit Free Press in the United States and Japan in 1991 found that 63 percent of Americans thought that the bombings were justified in a bid to end the war, while just 29 percent of Japanese did.
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America's sniveling disgrace is sorry that the bomb saved one million Allied casualties and the lives of another 4-5 million Japanese by bringing an end to the war that Japan started ... and he is completely committed to non-proliferation ... except for when it comes to giving nukes to Iran and other Muzzie fanatics!
Americans were much smarter back then.
That’s pretty much all I was ever taught in school, and I started first grade in 1963. Fortunately, that teaching did not stick in my case.
They can think whatever they want it still wasn’t wrong.
Thinking like that is only possible when you have a limited education. Thinking like that is only possible with liberals being the educators.
My dad was US Navy in the Pacific. If Truman hadn’t done what he did I might not be here. Baby Boomer, you know.
They believe this because they have no risk of being the first one off the Higgins boat invading Japan.
No one ever thought it was “right” - only that it was necessary.
japan was not going to give up, and attacking their mainland would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives (on both sides)
My uncle served in WWII in the pacific theater on a U.S. Navy ship, unless they were in that war in some way back then, they can STFU.
Two thoughts:
1) Did ANYONE in Japan ever think that the Hiroshima bombing was right?
2) Young people today are barely aware that WW II even occurred, let alone the logic and reasoning behind Truman’s decision. Add years of pacifist propaganda and Voila.
They would’ve thought otherwise if Japan ended up being a massive Vietnam before Vietnam with kamikazes on every street corner.
These guys were not going to surrender without a massive shock - US casualties would’ve been beyond massive. Easy to forget that this was the reason we nuked: To prevent even more loss of life.
The FACTS surrounding the decision have been censored from main stream education and revisionist history.
The public education system and the media are responsible for the rewriting of history and the drop in support for dropping the A bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is the Left’s long game in action and shows the diminished value placed on American lives and victory.
It takes a lot of indoctrination, induced ignorance and dumbingdown to get here.
They’ve done it.
It’s like Clarence Thomas. When it was happening, the public saw through the smears. Over time, with the constant media leftist drumbeat, public perception changed.
Do they think Pearl Harbor was “wrong” ?
They can “think” whatever the hell they want.
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war then, and saved millions of lives.
If it had not, we were poised to invade.
We estimated 500,000 US causalities among our troops, and 2,000,000 Japanese troops, with perhaps 8,000,000 Japanese citizens dying either as a result of fighting or suicide.
Using those bombs saved ALL OF THOSE LIVES.
UN-freaking-believable, that they would put any stock in polls surveying people that never had to send their children off to fight these heathen savages. Truman nipped it in the bud, like a responsible leader.
If, in fact, there is a shift in American attitudes against the bomb it results from two things; (1) years of anti-American propaganda; (2) the polling and resultant counting as Americans of a large influx of aliens who hate Americans and want only freebies.
It makes sense. People that far away from the horror WOULD feel negatively about the bombing because it’s in a vacuum.
The week after 9/11, nuke bombing Afghanistan would have been positively received by the whole country.
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