[governsleastgovernsbest]

Boston Globe/NewsBusters Oedipal-projection ping to Today show list.

[RichInOC]

What-what-what?

[ClearCase_guy]

This may seem like airy theorizing...

No. It seems like rantings from someone who hates western civilization.

[bannie]

You start a war: We finish a war.

Idiots.

[AmericanInTokyo]

WTF!?

[agere_contra]

Because of shame over their sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

No sin, but rather dire necessity. Otherwise we'ld still be fighting Japan.

[Americanexpat]

I feel no shame.

[Vaquero]

God bless Truman for nuking Japan.

[dirtboy]

Unconsciously ashamed of our own action in using the bomb

What a tool. My grandfather's ship was kamikazied during the Battle of Okinawa. He had hundreds of his shipmates die. And this unmitigated idiot has the gall to believe that anyone with a brain feels any shame about dropping the bomb to end the war? The bomb saved millions of American AND Japanese lives by bringing the war to an end without the need to invade the home islands.

Of course, this jerk also probably thinks a cease-fire in Lebanon would lead to peace and few lives lost. Stupid is, if anything, consistent.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Could Carroll's column be a classic bit of projection of his own Oedipal issues?

Every single one of Carroll's columns is just like this.

Without question, he is the biggest pussy in New England.

[Rummyfan]

"Thus, what I am calling the Nagasaki principle consists in momentum, which obfuscates responsibility before the fact, and denial, which prevents a necessary moral reckoning afterward.

Airy theorism? Is it even a sentence?

[From many - one.]

Just for the record, this American is not ashamed, and remembers feeling quite proud as a kid that we had decisively put an end to the Japanese threat.

I also remember "Unconditional Surrender"

Don't care if he was a democrat, Truman knew what he was doing>

[ChildOfThe60s]

Only guilt ridden liberals feel/felt this way.

And as all liberals do, they project their own distorted feelings and reasoning on to others.

It was a damn shame that we had to drop the bomb. But the responsibility lies with Japan. For me, sadness for the innocents does not translate into guilt.

I finally figured out why liberals have such an affinity for arab terrorists. You know how they march in the street whipping themselves bloody with chains? That's what libs do to themselves emotionally, and wish they had the nerve to do physically.

[bannie]

PEARL HARBOR was our invitation. Any logic beyond that is skewered.

[sitetest]

""Thus, what I am calling the Nagasaki principle consists in momentum, which obfuscates responsibility before the fact, and denial, which prevents a necessary moral reckoning afterward."

I'd feel guiltier if I could figure out what this meant.

[sitetest]

""Thus, what I am calling the Nagasaki principle consists in momentum, which obfuscates responsibility before the fact, and denial, which prevents a necessary moral reckoning afterward."

I'd feel guiltier if I could figure out what this meant.

[pax_et_bonum]

"Unconsciously ashamed of our own action in using the bomb, we were waiting for pay-back, and on that beautiful morning it seemed to come. The smoke rising up from the twin towers hit us like a mushroom cloud, and we instantly dubbed the ruined site as Ground Zero, when, as historian John Dower observes, the only true Ground Zeros are the two in Japan."

He sees poetic beauty in the attacks of 9/11.

[Skooz]

Oh, for crying loud. Not this crap again.

The atom bombs dropped on Japan saved the lives of at least 500,000 American servicemen and several million (yes, several MILLION) Japanese, most of them civilians.

[reagan_fanatic]

Good Lord...

The blanket of stupidity that the left is so enveloped in these days makes you feel as if you yourself are suffocating sometimes.

[Pox]

Unconsciously ashamed of our own action in using the bomb, we were waiting for pay-back

Unbelievable idiot. This sounds like a pansy who immediately wets himself anytime anyone mentions the word 'nuclear' or 'atomic'. A typical coward though, and likely using the 'fear' of nukes and the modern liberal psychosis against any war/combat of any type to confuse the casual reader into forgetting the crispy cities that came before the nukes.

Dresden and Tokyo were devastated by incendiary bombs, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of civilians were killed in the fire bombings of many cities in WW2.

Someone needs his depends changed.