[Kaslin]

Victor Davis Hanson Column

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[Silentgypsy]

Tiresome. They started it. Truman and the Americans finished it.

[Snickering Hound]

Just Operation Olympic would have made D-Day look like a picnic.

[Rappini]

I have a picture of the Enola Gay taken by my Uncle who was a 1st Marine Raider when he was on Tinian. I was able to get Tibbets and His Navigator Van Kirk to sign it some years ago. Never figured out how to post it.

[COBOL2Java]

And in 2018 we have a new bomb of August

[M Kehoe]

Imho, it would have been dereliction of duty or even treason if Truman didn’t drop the bombs.

5.56mm

[Alberta's Child]

One problem with any of these conversations is that they quickly descend into a case of "situation ethics" that has no moral foundation.

Another problem is that the wrong examples are used to make a case either way. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't even the most lethal attacks of World War II, but their unique status as atomic bomb targets has obscured others like the firebombing of Tokyo.

[bert]

The fire bombing of Tokyo is said to have killed at least 100,000

The Marianas B 29 campaign against Japan destroyed all the cities. By August, all that were left unscathed were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[Ancesthntr]

“... the bloodiest human or natural catastrophe in history, accounting for more than 65 million dead.”

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Not to minimize WW2 and its carnage, but there were roughly 65 million killed over 6 years. Compare that with 50-100 million killed from January 1918 – December 1920 by the Spanish flu pandemic. Half the time, similar (and perhaps greater) numbers dead, and a lower world population base (approximately 1.8 billion in 1918 and 2.3 billion in 1939). I’d argue that the pandemic was worse.

Otherwise, I am a very great fan of VDH - he is a rational and fact-based person who really knows how to write well, and it is good to have him on our side.

[Pollster1]

George Will rubs elbows with globalist insiders so he can hear them praise him as a conservative intellectual giant. VDH really is an intellectual giant; he doesn’t have to pretend or beg for praise from establishment goons to feel like a real scholar.

[bitt]

ping!! VDH