“As there will always be the blame America first crowd, aka the enemy within, this vomit is guaranteed to be regurgitated up every year.”
Again, I’m not quite sure what ‘blame America’ first has to do with it?
The question as to whether the Atomic bomb was necessary is not the same as whether the Atomic bomb was morally right or wrong.
I also don’t see how Eisenhower is less of an authority on the state of the war in August in 1945 than Truman. Eisenhower says that the war could have been won without it, then I side with Eisenhower.
I also don’t think that the US was morally wrong to drop the bomb - Japan declared war on the US, not the other way around. The US is entitled to use whatever means they see fit to win the war when it was American citizens who were attacked unprovoked at Pearl Harbour.
I don't see how he's more of an authority than Truman. They had the same info, except as president, Truman got it from more non-military sources, and as a professional pol, probably had a better handle on the cultural aspects of why surrender was not an option for the Japanese. In fact the personal experiences of over a million American troops (as well as Allied troops and guerrilla formations) fighting their never-say-die Japanese counterparts tended to contradict Eisenhower's castles-in-the-air speculation. Ultimately, Eisenhower was talking out of his butt, the same orifice that generated the silly military-industrial complex speech with which liberals (who are otherwise disdainful of him) have been beating us over the head for 60+ years.