A Textbook That Should Live in Infamy: The Common Core Assaults World War II

Townhall.com ^ | December 2, 2013 | Terrence Moore

[Colonel_Flagg]

There is no need to apologize :) I hope you feel better very soon!

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Impy]

Seriously? Nam and Iraq are one thing.

WW1 even, I don't think we needed to be involved with that one.

But these people are on the Jeanette Rankin train? Stick a flower in Hitler's rifle? Cuckoo! One wonders what they think of the Revolutionary War, perhaps peaceful protest against the Brits was the answer? A hunger strike like Gandi.

Domo arigato Mr. Roboto.

[LS]

Good one. I tell my students the CNN interview with the Korean woman on the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the a-bomb.

Q: "What do you think of the Americans dropping the atomic bomb on the Japanese on this date in history?"

A: "How many did they have? They should have dropped all of them."

[GOPsterinMA]

Fags. All revisionist fags.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

[kathsua]

I’m not an historian but I do remember that it was a strong anti-war movement that kept America out of WWI for several years and prevented America from entering WWII until Pearl Harbor.

[pepsionice]

Generally, after you read up on the planning invasion of Japan....you see a campaign that takes a minimum of two years and costs a minimum of 100,000 American lives. Few would guess the Japanese civilian toll....but it has to be a minimum of half-a-million dead from starvation or being used as shields for the military leadership.

An alternate war would easily be written with WW II ending sometime in 1948. There would have been no will left in the US for rebuilding Germany or Japan by that point.

[I got the rope]

This should be mandatory to watch for kids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmUYv5-9FiI

[jdege]

I see nothing at all wrong with being conflicted about Hiroshima. Any sane person would regret the necessity.

But to discuss Hiroshima without mentioning Nanking is grossly irresponsible.

We didn’t just up and decide to bomb Japan because we were evil people. We were working to bring to an end a political system that most definitely needed to be ended.

[dfwgator]

I see nothing at all wrong with being conflicted about Hiroshima. Any sane person would regret the necessity.

In the end it probably saved more Japanese lives, because millions would have perished in an invasion.