Posted on 10/11/2011 4:56:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
Leadership: Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next president apologize for the current one?
The obsessive need of this president to apologize for American exceptionalism and our defense of freedom continued recently when Barack Obama's State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) contacted the family of al-Qaida propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to "express its condolences" to his family.
Khan, a right-hand man to Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed along with Awlaki in an airstrike in Yemen on Sept. 30. We apologized for killing a terrorist before he could help kill any more of us.
It's yet another part of the world apology tour that began with Obama taking the oath of office to protect and defend the United States and its Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, something he immediately felt sorry for.
One stop on his tour was Prague in August 2009. There he spoke of "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," ignoring that before 1945 we lived in such a world and it was neither peaceful nor secure.
Another stop on the tour was in Japan, where Obama in November 2009 bowed to the emperor, something no American president had ever done. It could have been worse if plans to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima to apologize for winning the war with the atom bombs had come to pass.
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The Japanese have more sense then our own president. There is no reason whatsoever to apologize to what is now our dear friend and ally for what we did during the war. It was, after all, war.
That is insane.
Those bombs saved more Japanese lives than American and they would have saved a LOT of American lives. The invasions would not have been pretty.
Those bombs saved more Japanese lives than American and they saved a LOT of American lives. The invasions would not have been pretty.
Apologizing for someone else amounts to finger-pointing, not contrition.
Yes and they started it... so $crew them if they can’t accept a presidential apology from the country they attacked! Choose a smaller country to pick on so you do not become the reason the big country develops a weapon to totally destroy you.. FOOLS.
It also saved Japan from being divided, like Korea.
Yes, and the soviets wanted to jump in and get half of Japan. We played it well so they would not. The bomb actually gave all, (us and japan) a pause from the soviets getting involved.
“I’m surprised he hasn’t appollogized for the crusades”
He can’t, he’s on the other side.
Have the Japanese ever sincerely apologized for the suffering they inflicted on the Chinese, the Koreans, the Filipinos, and the people of the other countries they conquered? In Nanking, China, alone, they killed hundreds of thousands--for no reason other than that Japan wanted to conquer China.
Has Obama apologized to the Japanese for what the US did after the war, rebuilding Japan? He should include that in his apology.
Obama is not a patriot.
Lets see if the republicans have the courage to use it.
But he has no moral right to speak for Americans.
It is my personal estimate that Japanese casualties for all of the invasions and subjugation of Japan would have exceeded 20 million, probably closer to 30 million. I have talked to Japanese who were alive at the time. They were much more afraid of Americans than of death because of Japanese propaganda. It would have been a blood bath.
One would hope that Harry S wouldn't just give half of Japan to the USSR if they didn't have boots on the ground.
Nuclear weapons are the reason WWII was the last war between major industrial nations. Nukes are the great peacekeepers of the world in the right hands.
At Yalta FDR got Stalin to promise to enter the war against Japan within 2 or 3 months after the end of the war in Europe. Stalin declared war on Japan 3 months to the day after V-E Day. In February 1945 the atom bomb hadn’t been proven to work and people thought the war against Japan would continue into 1946, so getting Soviet help seemed like a good idea. As it turned out, for 6 days’ participation in the war (Japan agreed to surrender on August 14), Stalin got a lot, including half of Korea.
Apology tour ping
Spot on, and anyone who doesn’t understand this is only showing their ignorance of WWII Pacific Theater history, and the Battle of Okinawa in particular.
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