[Jeff Chandler]

By destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Truman administration basically killed the GOP/Republican allied areas of Japan. Those cities had more people immigrate to work on Republican controlled land in the 1880-1930 time frame than any other area.

So, basically, Truman altered the demographics of the vote in Japan for the next 100 years... Sunday's vote on Koizumi is proof that it worked.

The US GOP is real good at letting their allies get fried.

Um, dude...Truman was a Democrat.

[bonesmccoy]

Jeff,

I was talking about our existing GOP leadership... not Truman.

Everytime the GOP builds allies, the democrats come in and fry the GOP international allies when the GOP loses the next election...

If the GOP had stopped Truman's use of the bomb in 1945, they would have had a massive supply of inexpensive labor for the next 20 years.