[Chainmail]

Excellent monograph by a combat veteran. My wife, who is young and beautiful, sees the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as hideous and unnecessary. She is the product of our liberal school system and its version of history.

I am, however, a combat veteran and I have suffered all my life from the physical and spiritual effects of killing and seeing friends killed. I know what war's really about and I know just what this authors means about all of those young men who knew that they would not leave this war alive if we continued our invasion plans for Japan.

The bombs did what all of the other horrors didn't: it caused the Japanese to quit and as a result, millions of worthwhile young Americans, Brits, Russians, and Japanese got to survive and to build a new world.

I'm giving this article to my sweet missus.

[Mark17]

My wife, who is young and beautiful, sees the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as hideous and unnecessary. She is the product of our liberal school system and its version of history.

My wife is young and beautiful too, but her country was occupied by Japan. She is not into PC and has no time for them.

[Chuzzlewit]

my wife, who used to be young and beautiful, now is older and still quite attractive...

keep working the logic and that young wife...my wife who I only married 4 years ago, at age 58, actually voted for Obama, in 2008. I married her in 2009, and began directing her to new logical ways of thinking about American politics, and geo-political issues.

she has come around. she is a conservative. there is hope.