Globe Columnist: Shamed by Hiroshima, America Was Awaiting 9/11 Payback

Boston Globe/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Centurion2000]

You know 60 years ago this would have been called sedition.

[rottndog]

Ashamed of Hiroshima/Nagasaki----HELL NO!!!!

[rottndog]

You know, an aspect I never hear discussed about the A-bombings of Japan--the vast majority of the Japanese killed at Hiroshima/Nagasaki died instantly--Most probably never new what happened to them. Compared to the ravages of warfare, I think this was far more humane than having to kill them through conventional means.

[LIConFem]

Apologies for the mixup!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks. I understand how it can happen - and it happens fairly often - but it's frustrating to be tarred with the very brush I was trying to expose ;-)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"My dad was Army Air Corps, back from overseas at the time but waiting to be sent out again if it hadn't been for Hiroshima and the Japanese surrender."

My dad was a Naval Aviator. PBY (Flying duck-flying patrol boat/plane) Had orders to Okinawa. I hadn't been born yet. Probably alive because of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki raids.

[Wiseghy]

Carroll gets close to truth, however. Fear of nuke TERROR is the heart of the GWOT. In historical context, it is simply the continuation of the war of civilization with murderous, barbarian chaos that has continued from the time of the first walled cities.

Check out the elaborate fortifications from the year 1000 and after in Europe. Elaborate, expensive defense and justified paranoia have been the signature of our culture since the fall of the Romans.

Nukes make walls useless, and so here we are trying to root out organized, well financed terror funded by proxies. It is amazing that liberals think that barbaric forces can be reasonable; it never worked with Tamerlane or Gengis Khan, who generally slaughtered entire populations wholesale.

[an amused spectator]

It seems like rantings from someone who hates western civilization.

I've been pondering over the last few days why Western thought seems to have a leavening of suicidal tendencies mixed in, and whether or not the Romans had the same problem.

I mean, it's plain as the nose on my face that Islamofascism needs to be terminated with extreme prejudice, and I know many people who are blissfully unaware that ANY steps need to be taken in regards to Islam.