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It is one of the absurdities of modern Political Leftism. They want to argue that it was some how immoral to use the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs. That we could of “Besieged” the Japanese.

That utter nonsense. The infrastructure of the Japanese islands was breaking down. Japan could not feed itself and rely-ed on food imports. Instead of killing about 200,000 Japanese Civilians, the Leftist “Siege” would of ended up killing tens of millions from disease, starvation and malnutrition. EVEN then there is NO indication that would of broke the Japanese will. Japanese soldiers hung on various pacific islands for decades after WW 2 ended. Even after the bombs dropped die hard militarists tried to stop the Emperor from surrendering.

Then there is the question. What response would the Japanese been to an invasion and occupation. The Left screams about the Iraqis “Insurgency” what do you suppose a Japanese Insurgency would of done? Who knows if the Japanese would of even survived as a people? The Civilian and Military casualties on Siapan and Okinawa were horrific. Give the intensifying tempo of suicide attacks,the fire power brought down on the Japanese Home Island prior to and during an Invasion would of killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of civilians, as well as military forces.

So to save a whole nation we kills a couple of cities. That was an act of humanity.

I think it was the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima Bomb and a Japanese Grandmother was interviewed. She told of being a teenager who received training in "spear chuckin'" When the American soldiers stormed the beach they were to be met by waves of female Banzaii warriors weilding bamboo spears. They were propogandized to the point where their hatred overcame their common sense.

We didn't invade and she would learn that the Americans were not the devils that Hiro Hito had portrayed!

Truman was the last of the Democrat Presidents to show leadership skills. Great memoir, I recommend it!

“Ken Burns Affirms Truman’s Judgment and Humanity”

Having watched “The War”, and (IMHO) thinking that during the first
four episodes that Burns spent about twice the time needed to make
his point about “America The Racist Country”...the last three episodes
really did seem to “straighten up and fly right” for the most part.

I HELD MY BREATH for the last episode...BUT...Burns gave the plausible
arguments for dropping the A-bombs on Japan.
And IIRC didn’t spend a minute on the trials at Nuremberg.
Not a single muttering about Truman being a war criminal or
America not having the right to judge war-criminals.

Even when one African-American soldier and a Japanese-American soldier
related some hassles they encountered right after the war...
Burns revealed that both of them had what the theater crowd
would call “great second and third acts” (great lives).

I will say that somehow I did get the accompanying book for “The War”
from the library and it’s a pretty darned good compilation of narratives
and photos.

...and for reference by the forum:

(discussion thread for Part 7 of The War; posts 1-4 have useful
links to discussions on Parts 1-6 and sources for buying The War
DVD and accompanying book)
“The War” (by Ken Burns) Part 7 of 7; Airing on PBS @ 7PM and 9:30PM Central 10-2-07
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905614/posts

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