[Kozak]

"But he said it is evident that the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show that nuclear weapons kill huge numbers of people at random."


Not at random. That was the plan. And boy did it stop a bunch of fanatical suicide pilots....

[The Old Hoosier]

Of course, we'll never know how many suicide pilots it stopped. For all we know, zero. The Unforgettable Fire was the worst US atrocity of all time, a real stain on our nation's glory. It killed far more than the WTC attacks, and nearly all of them civilians.

I'll never understand the argument that "it saved US soldiers' lives." So a soldier, a sailor, is happy to see women and children die in his place? Sickening.

I have nothing but respect for the sailors, soldiers and marines who fought in the Pacific Theater and now use that argument, but they should think about it a little while. Sailors, soldiers and Marines were not the ones who made the cowardly decision to commit a terrorist act against a civilian population. It was an evil president, who feigned ignorance at Pearl Harbor, then willingly betrayed Europe to the communists, who planned the atrocity, and his successor carried it out.