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The Horrors of Hiroshima in Context
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| April 21, 2016
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 04/21/2016 4:41:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:41:02 AM PDT
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Kaslin
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:42:34 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
Making America the enemy, our schools are instructed not to teach the truth so our children believe we are the aggressor and the evil instead of the evil itself. Today it’s islam
To: Kaslin
Obama is the evil that has transformed America
into its own enemy ... until the undocumented
Indonesian is removed.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:46:42 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: Kaslin
Before president weenie apologizes to anyone, let him get an apology for Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
For a start.
What an *sshole.
To: Kaslin
Has Japan apologized for Nanking?
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:49:39 AM PDT
by
HChampagne
(Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
To: Kaslin
If the fighting had continued into 1946 or ‘47, and had the American public found out we had a weapon that would have ended the war, I believe President Truman would have faced impeachment.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:50:17 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Kaslin
Professor Hanson has to write articles like this in order to remind Americans, especially those that never really learned history or read books but MAYBE see historical Hollywood films about events that there was a very serious and real reason why America had to finish the Japanese off.
Thank you Professor Hanson for clearing stating what we should all know about and defend.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:53:05 AM PDT
by
Netz
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"President Truman would have faced impeachment disembowelment."
To: Kaslin
One of the most fascinating spectacles that I ever witnessed took place in a history classroom when I was in college. A fellow student and the (very liberal) instructor got into a polite, but nonetheless fierce debate about the use of the atomic bombs. And this student was HAMMERING the prof with statistics and estimates of casualties that Japan would have suffered in an invasion by American forces, so persuasively that the instructor ALMOST conceded that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a mercy for the Japanese people. "Almost", but not fully there. For some the liberalism's grasp is too much to easily escape.
The use of the bombs is nothing the United States should apologize for. It is regrettable that we had to take that step. But in all likelihood we would have regretted NOT using them far more so.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:54:55 AM PDT
by
Samwell Tarly
(America is becoming "Harrison Bergeron" had it been envisioned by Ayn Rand)
To: HChampagne
Japan refuses to apologize for anything connected to it's part in launching the Second World War. As far as it's concerned Japan was a peaceful nation minding it's own business when suddenly, without provocation and for no reason at all on two days in August 1945 America dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan was forced to surrender itself to the Americans. I detest the Japanese for this reason, the bastards.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:55:10 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
And these bombs were tame popgun affairs compared to modern thermonuclear bombs. They were dropped upon what was documented to be military support operations, which nestled among dense urban population centers. The actual damage zone was less than the extent of our modern L. A. International Airport.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:55:42 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Kaslin
“purportedly as a precursor to a planned visit next month by President Obama, who is rumored to be considering an apology to Japan for America’s dropping of the bombs 71 years ago. “
Trump 2016
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:56:06 AM PDT
by
JPJones
( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
To: jmacusa
I could see a meeting intended to facilitate statements of mutual regret of both lands and a renewed resolution for peace, but this one sided treatment, of the defensive side in the war no less, is silly.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:57:21 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Kaslin
Not to justify it, but more people died firebombing Tokyo. Many cities were equally destroyed conventionally to the extent that it was somewhat difficult to find target cities for Fat Man & Little Boy. European firebombing was minor compared to the extent Japanese cities burned. Exponentially more sq miles.
Had the war not ended in August 45, most of Japan would have been starving in winter 46. No transportation was left to move the summer rice harvest to remaining population centers.
It saved both GIs and Japanese. Also probably saved South Korea from Kim Jung Il and the Soviets.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:00:31 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: HiTech RedNeck
If Japan had had such a weapon it would have used without haste or regret. Dropping those bombs saved my late father-in-laws life. He was in the Fourth Marine Division and had survived being wounded on Iwo Jima.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:00:59 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: jmacusa
Japan had the will to fight by means of brute manpower, but not this kind of technology.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:05:22 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: zek157
It was weather that made the targets hard to locate.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:06:14 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: jmacusa
And privately, a lot of Japanese were glad in retrospect that they weren’t pressed into a suicide effort. They probably had little idea of a “gracious conqueror.” The USA with Judeo-Christianity was familiar with the idea. Shinto did not support that.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:08:44 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Jack Hammer
Lacking apologies for Nanjing, Bataan, Manila (’45), and a thousand other atrocities committed by the Emperor’s troops, the Japanese are owed exactly dick.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:09:32 AM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinion)
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