Having visited Peace Park in Hiroshima and seen the museum there, this photo crystalizes the very reasons the Bush Administration should be exercising more control over the US borders.
It's a matter of time before the heart of one of our cities looks like the aftermath of Nagasaki. I pray that it will never happen, but the hate that has been sewn among the jihadists assures us that the past is prologue.
It's easy to sit in the comfort of our homes and recklessly talk about nuking various places, but try visiting one of those places and see if you still agree. It's not as exciting as it may seem when you understand the suffering and misery of the victims. We can discuss the pros and cons forever and I see both sides of the argument.
In the long run, atomic/nuclear weapons are not and cannot be the playthings of mad, immature minds. I don't doubt that Truman wrestled with the question of dropping the bombs on Japan, and I doubt that he took much pleasure in their result. And, yet, reluctantly, the use of those weapons in that circumstance was the right call in the final analysis.
God willing, we will never see a repetition of those bombings.
A good read is the book WARS END written by the pilot of the photography plane over Hiroshima and the bomb plane in Nagasaki.
He said that by bombing these two places he figured it saved hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers lives it would have cost to invade the Japaneese Islands.
I feel no temorse if you look at the end result.
While in Japan I found that they still hate us for the bombings and refuse to accept responsibility for starting the war or any responsibility for bombing Hawaii or the numerous war crimes committed by the Japaneese armies.
If we are bombed here with any nukes we should use our nukes to take out all the centers of support for terrorism against the U.S. such as Mecca, Medina, Syria, tehran and all of Yeman.
Remorse? I don't think so.