If I had been President in August 1945, I would have dropped both bombs and slept very soundly the night afterward.
HOWEVER.
It is 71 years later, and I don’t think it’s a criticism of Truman, nor is it an excuse of Japanese war crimes, to acknowledge that the consequences of the firebombings of Hamburg, Dresden, or Tokyo and the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki visited enormous and terrible suffering on people, including children, who were themselves powerless to change the course of German or Japanese war policy.
There comes a time to rise up & remove evil leadership.
We in the U.S. have been fortunate we can do so at the
ballot box if we aren’t too flim-flammed by lying
politicians to do so.