“It is no contest... the bombs prevented the death of 1 million American soldiers from fanatical Japanese who had NO PROBLEM killing thousands of Chinese, Filipinos, and the Americans at Pearl Harbor.”
I can celebrate the bombing of Hiroshima.
My Dad was a Marine, injured at Okinawa and healed up, ready for the invasion of the Japanese mainland—when Truman decided wisely to save many lives, by taking a few.
It took the Shock and Awe of the first two nukes to rattle the fanatic Japs into ending their madness.
We might need to use Shock and Awe again, with the new version of fanatics. I’m deadly certain McCain has the wisdom, character, brains, patriotism to push that button, and equally sure Obama would not.
“My Dad was a Marine, injured at Okinawa and healed up, ready for the invasion of the Japanese mainland—when Truman decided wisely to save many lives, by taking a few.”
....my Dad was at Okinawa too...he was with the 5th Marine Amphib group...they had just been through a 3 month battle with the Japs there and knew that invasion of the homeland would be even worse...I’m glad they dropped the bomb...my father came home alive.