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WaPo: In Japan and America, more and more people think Hiroshima bombing was wrong
Washington Post ^
| May 10, 2016
| Adam Taylor
Posted on 05/10/2016 9:34:31 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: TXnMA
TXnMA:
"Only a liberal imbecile like 0b0z0 would apololgize for saving millions of lives." As far as I'm concerned, sir, that's the quote of the day.
If anyone knows a better one, I'd like to see it.
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posted on
05/10/2016 1:43:16 PM PDT
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
To: Zakeet
Of course, 70 years have passed and we are no longer in the midst of a world war.
That said, I once read a book about American POWs in Japan when the bombs were dropped. Two of the prisoners went to Nagasaki and were horrified and full of remorse. They didn’t think it was worth it.
OTOH, I personally asked several survivors and they were all for it.
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posted on
05/10/2016 1:44:27 PM PDT
by
tiki
To: Mollypitcher1
"Forgot the LOL!" So did I, but didn't think it needed.
I could easily see yours! ;-)
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posted on
05/10/2016 1:45:00 PM PDT
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
To: shooter223
“War is the solution our enemies have chosen, and I say lets give them all they want.” Quoted by a man that knew what he was talking about, General William T. Sherman
To: dfwgator
Was it ever proven that Tojo was behind a plot?
Wouldn’t surprise me, those Bushido loving military personnel were crazy enough for anything.
I know some officers wanted to take Hirohito prisoner and pressure him into urging a guerrilla war.
Some junior officers tried to break into the building where the recording was kept and steal it.
Crazy things happen when a war is winding down.
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posted on
05/10/2016 2:55:31 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
To: Mollypitcher1
You are right, Trump is passionate about dumping Common Core and returning all or some of the burden to the states. Education's budget is next after that of Defense and HHS; nonetheless, there may well be some feature(s) worth preserving.
Unfortunately, we should expect it will take more than 8 years to arrest and reverse the heavy anti-America theme prevalent in our K-post grad education system.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:03:24 PM PDT
by
frog in a pot
(That our commander-in-chief can be foreign born to a foreign father thrills the one-worlders.)
To: oldvirginian
No less than Admiral Ugaki led about sixteen zealous flight cadets on a final kamikaze mission the day *after* the surrender was announced.
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posted on
05/10/2016 4:08:35 PM PDT
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: Mollypitcher1
Has Seattle torn down their statue of Lenin?As I understand it, it is still on display in some artsy-fartsy neighborhood up there:
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posted on
05/10/2016 5:25:32 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
To: Oatka
It’s still there in the Fremont neighborhood — surrounded by the kind of small businesses that Lenin would have collectivized. Irony is a significant industry in Seattle.
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posted on
05/10/2016 5:27:30 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: M1903A1
I hadn’t known that.
Thanks.
Japanese soldiers were coming out of the jungle for thirty years because they refused to believe the war was over.
Talk about hardheaded!
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posted on
05/10/2016 6:16:27 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
To: SkyDancer
Bill Whittle covers that in his video as well. And you are right, they were ignored.
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posted on
05/10/2016 7:09:48 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: Oatka
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posted on
05/10/2016 7:20:25 PM PDT
by
Mollypitcher1
(I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
To: oldvirginian
One of the last (”officially” the next-to-last—rumors have persisted of others that “came in from the cold” after him) wrote a very engrossing book about his experience...”No Surrender: My Thirty Year War” by Lt. Hiroo Onoda. IMO it could make for an equally good movie in the right hands.
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posted on
05/10/2016 7:44:36 PM PDT
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: Oatka
Glue a shopping bag and a Starbucks cup to his hand....
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posted on
05/10/2016 7:45:41 PM PDT
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: Wonder Warthog
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posted on
05/10/2016 7:49:39 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: M1903A1
It’s now on my reading list!
Actually looking forward to reading it.
I like seeing how the other side sees and thinks.
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posted on
05/10/2016 10:48:54 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
To: BatGuano
"OK, So?" Uneducated is fixable.....stupid isn't.
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