Rico, Chosen by One makes the same argument that any number of liberal American Hating College professors have attempted to make since the 1960's.
I have personally debated a couple of them to the point that they just sputtered and shut up.
We arent talking about attitudes toward Japan in 2008. We are talking about the facts on the Ground in 1945 in the days leading up to the first bomb being dropped.
What we knew about Japan remains very clear. Poll results asking the uneducated masses (Most of whom cant tell you who the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is) doesnt change the simply FACTS.
Both American and Japanese scolars will tell you that the cost of invasion would have been far greater than the losses from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There was no serious consideration of an embargo or some kind of Naval Blockade. Considering the size of Japan, the actual lenght the Japanese were willing to go to,
the FACT that in the closing days of the European front, America was very much concerned with a possible front opening against RUSSIA.
The HISTORIC REALITY was that use of the Atomic bomb was deemed necessary.
could we have hit something smaller? sure I suppose we could have. but remember first, Hiroshima was hit before Nagasaki, and that didnt get the Japanese to caputlate.
second, consider that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both "something smaller". They were not the main cities of Japan. we could have unleased the bombs on Tokoyo and Yokohama.
and third, the point here isnt that we should or should not have dropped the bomb, but the charge that it was done, according to Jerimiah Wright, without batting an eye! that is an out and out lie.
Ferd I think you need to work for FOX! Awesome point!
Isaiah 53:5: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."(KJV)
"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves." Dwight L. Moody
I think you need to work for FOX! Awesome point!
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