Yes, Dropping Atomic Bombs On Japan Was A Good Thing

Today, President Obama visited Hiroshima. It was the first time a sitting president has done so. Of course, we’ve entered another arena of liberal debate: were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ethical/justified/moral? The answer is yes to all three. First, let’s delve into something a bit disconcerting, which is that an increasing number of Americans feel that the bombing was wrong (via WaPo):

In the first Gallup poll from 1945 just after the bombings, a huge 85 percent of Americans approved the bombings. However, figures from 2005 show a significant decline to 57 percent. Meanwhile, another poll conducted by the Detroit Free Press in the United States and Japan in 1991 found that 63 percent of Americans thought that the bombings were justified in a bid to end the war, while just 29 percent of Japanese did.

“It is not my truth. It is truth belonging to the wise and wisdom of the ages, including those in positions like yours.

Sorry you can’t get it.”

What it really is, cannot be established. But many cling to it: it does convey certain operational advantages.

Anybody who can convince a gaggle of onlookers that the Almighty is commanding the gaggle, can get a whole lot more mileage out of issued commands. Compensates for deficiencies in personal qualities or character attributes of actual utility - stuff like talent, or insight, or courage. But it does require shameless sales pitches.

Make no mistake, it’s amihow’s truth. Along with Arthur McGowan, Claud, and the rest, posters of a certain type cannot get enough of the stuff. I’d toss some psychobabble into the mix, and speculate on why the “certain types” would be so frightened of uncertainty, of admitting they don’t know, but psychobabble is if anything even more unhelpful.

Certain types may believe. But they cannot know.

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