Posted on 08/05/2007 7:44:36 AM PDT by enraged
Sixty-two years later, the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima still holds such a grip on Japan that its defense minister has had to resign simply for suggesting the attack was "unavoidable."
Now, in a sign of changing times, the task of spreading Hiroshima's message to the world has been entrusted to an American, a citizen of the country that dropped the bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.
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Tell us about it.
Their own atom bomb program was bogged down inasmuch as their primary development facility in Harbin had "blown up" along with almost all their primary atomic scientists.
On the other hand the Japanese jet plane and long range bomber programs were not bogged down ~ they still had hopes.
The plutonium totally demoralized the guys at the top.
The author apparently is also a liar. Even a cursory reading of her resume shows her ability to “shade” the truth.
To wit: She says she was a paralegal from 11/02 to July 2005. This appears to be a full-time job.
During the same time frame, she worked as an “intern’ and/or “reporter” for three news agencies, 5/02 to 9/04
I presume she was part-time.
Yet, her resume also shows she was in Berkeley, California in June of 2005 as an Intern at PBS.
How can this be when she supposedly was a paralegal in NYC until July of 2005?
Thanks for posting this. I was not aware of this.
On the other hand, we can see in retrospect that the entire European campaign, from the time of the first invasion at Oran, to the Battle of the Bulge, was absolutely unnecessary just as long as we had a bomber platform in Iceland.
The Third Reich could have been rolled up in a couple of weeks if we'd just waited until September 1945.
More than 10,000,000 Japanese were shipped to South America.
Disease was rampant.
The place was far from being a worldly manifestation of the Western Paradise for many years.
Does Leeper condemn Japanese Imperialism and Nazi Imperialism (and Islamic Imperialism) or just American “Imperialism”?
The real question is, "will the world see nuclear weapons used again?". The magic 8-ball says, "Signs point to yes"...
True. If they believe that it’s really difficult to expect them to understand what an invasion of Japan would have looked like.
I know which is why I wrote IF we had the bomb a year earlier.
Since they had their own atom bomb program they knew some things and had researched others.
Our guys knew about their program and they knew about ours. Sorge, Stalin's spymaster, found out about the Japanese spy in the Manhattan Project from his other spies ~ the Rosenberg crowd weren't the only Soviet spies it turned out.
Stalin informed Roosevelt, and Roosevelt sent our guys to take him out ~ alas, he fled before being captured because, as it turns out, the Japanese had spies in either our top level of command or inside the Kremlin.
My understanding is the spy for Japan was an Englishman. No idea who Stalin's other spies were who blew the whistle on him ~ like Stalin had a lot of spies in that program ~ highly trained and educated people who were there to make sure it worked ~ not just to steal the secrets.
Folks had a lot riding on the development and construction of workable atom bombs. FOr the most part they all kept it secret from the public at large.
Whatsamatter--nobody knew how to say "uncle" in Japanese?
That's spot on. You've explained much with very few words.
I was stationed in Japan during the occupation and traveled extensively throughout the main island. There was almost no place where we could land more than 2-3,000 troops in a reasonable time period. Everyone one of these sites had a extensive crossfire covering capability. No place to land paratroopers. Think about Okinawa and how both civilian and military used the southern cliffs to end their life. The Japanese worshiped their forefathers more than life its self. Thus, there would be numerous incidents of women and children charging our troops with weapons.
It took the Emperor to finally speak to the population via radio in spite of the efforts to prevent him.
Human life at the time did not mean much to them. It took us to teach them about living and change their crazy ways.
We saved many thousands more of Japanese besides our own in dropping the two bombs.
Curiously, the number of Japanese dead if the war had been allowed to continue is never mentioned.
I wonder if Japan's cognitive dissonance encompasses the contradiction of a view of contemporary Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Japan's role in the brutality that ended in the partial destruction of two of her industrial cities includes copies of The Rape of Nanking, and Prisoners of the Japanese? Revising history or selective cultural memory can no longer work. The body of documentation is simply too great.
It’s hard for me to believe that such silly and slanted “journalism” as this article passed muster with any news editor, even one of the most biased stripe. It should be in the opinion/editorial section, not in the news section.
Thank you for your service to our country as well as your personal insight on this topic.
Propaganda is such a sad historical tool. As is treason, whenever it occurs.
Imagine if Poland had allowed a Pole to be hired by factions in Germany after the war to argue that what Germany had done to Poland in 1939 was actually a good thing?
In my universe, he would have been found torn limb from limb very shortly after the fact.
Ain't hindsight wunnerful?
Shhhh!!! Don't confuse the whiners with the facts.
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