Posted on 08/07/2005 5:40:42 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
THE 60TH anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has arrived with little of the fury that accompanied the 50th. A decade ago, a bruising battle broke out over the Smithsonian Institution's plan for an exhibit suggesting that the American use of atomic weapons had been a racist war crime and served no legitimate military aim.
With a restored Enola Gay -- the B-29 that delivered the first bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 -- as a centerpiece, the Smithsonian's curators had intended to tell a story of American brutality and Japanese victimhood. ''For most Americans," their original script declared, ''this war was fundamentally different from the one waged against Germany and Italy -- it was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism." Such slanted revisionism pervaded the text, which The Washington Post rightly summed up as ''incredibly propagandistic and intellectually shabby."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
If any one believes the dropping of the A-bomb was wrong, check this out:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8141/downfall.html
Those who condemn the atomic raid on Japan, should remember the atrocities and brutality of Japanese Imperial Army in China, Korea, Burma, Singapore, Philipines and the rest of south asia.
Ah, I need to mention their brutal treatment of Allied POWs and Western civilians too.
I'm looking forward to seeing the movie "The Great Raid".
Oh it would have been much better for us and Japan if the war dragged on into 1946. /sarcasm
I watched "The Empire of the Sun" last nite
Recommend it?
Spielberg's movie!
But it showed how Japs treated British civilians in Hong Kong and Shanghai!
The left is not happy about us dropping the bomb because it was American lives saved.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
amen.
A lot of books have written about what Europe would have looked like under a victorious Third Reich but I don't know of any that have focused on Asia under a victorious Japanese empire.
The invasion of Japan, circa. November, 1945 would have been one of the biggest messes in history and many, many books would have been written since about its horrors.
Germans were different than vicious Japanese!
Very interesting article, thanks for posting the link.
That and it kept the Soviets from occupying part of Japan.
Books have been written trying to guess what would have happened but thankfully we didn't have to find out for real.
For the Japanese it was partly a war about oil.
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