Barton J. Bernstein (Pictured here on his favorite "stuff")
Stopped reading right there...
Monday morning quarterbacks with nothing to lose.
Ask all the survivors of the non-invasion of the Japanese islands about the atomic bomb. My great-uncle, who enlisted on December 8, 1941, would put his teeth in and give Herbert Hoover a earful.
Japan brought it on themselves. They were racist barbarians.
I believe Truman’s sincere motive was to shorten the war and save lives. Nevertheless, dropping bombs on cities with their civilian populations for the purpose of terror is and was a crime.
Used on military property. Military targets are legitimate targets in wartime. The Japs had no problem bombing our military property in peacetime, why should we feel guilty that we did so during wartime?
Would he have let this mass slaughter happen just to make some moral point if he had been President again at the time?
Memorandum from Herbert Hoover to President Harry Truman, May 30, 1945
If the U.S. had been forced to invade Japan casualties on both sides could have run into the millions. Many Baby Boomers would have never been born. And Truman proved to Stalin that the U.S. would use the bomb.
The Japanese at the time were akin to our current Muslim terrorists as they were both barbaric and from an old fashioned belief system that was anathema to freedom and individuality. They attacked and killed millions in China and were without mercy or remorse in the theater of war - that plus the counting of the cost of allied lives in the possible takeover of Japan adds a lot of justification for the use of the bomb - we may find in the not so distant future that Israel may find itself in such a predicament - I wonder who will fall on what side then?
Who is this history revisionist? Must be another liberal.
Unfortunately, nonsense like this is being taught in public schools.
I think people forget that the US dropped leaflets warning those cities that we were going to be dropping a devastating bomb on then within a few weeks and that they needed to LEAVE!
In other words, we told then it was coming, if they didn’t get out then why in the hell should we feel sorry or remorseful?!?
The title makes it sound like conservatives were anti-nuke, one and all. This is based on a single letter written by one man?? One swallow does not a spring make, as the old adage goes.
Hiroshima was a carefully thought out target. It had to have enough ‘shock and awe’ to trick the japanese leaders into thinking that continuing to fight was useless. Don’t forget, we only had 2 bombs in total! The US had been avoiding Kyoto and other places (with regular carpet bombing) that were not used for military purposes with the thought of a post war Japan needing to keep some of its positive heritage and dignity. This is a courtesy that would not have been extended to us by either the Germans or the Japanese.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were easy decisions and absolutely the right ones under the circumstances. Screw what liberals spew as "history".
According to libtardism discrimination is immoral. Bombs should not discriminate but treat everyone equally.
Author is a blooming idjit
it would have cost a million US soldiers to invade Japan
don’t want collateral damage?
don’t start a war
I can’t celebrate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of non-combatants but I accept its clear necessity. Truman, the last decent democrat to hold the Oval Office made the right call. I hope he came to peace with his unavoidable decision. It was the right thing to do but it was still horrible.
The battle for Okinawa lasted 82 days (April - June 1945). The Allies had about 14,000 deaths (with an estimated total of more than 65,000 casualties). Japan had about 77,000 casualties. Some sources say that 100,000 - 150,000 local civilians were killed or committed suicide.
These losses on Okinawa were a big factor in Truman’s decision to use Little Boy (Hiroshima) and Fat Man (Nagasaki).
If Hoover had kids who would have had to invade Japan, I’d bet his opinion would’ve been different.
*** “The indefensibility of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed.”***
He would have a different opinion if HE would have been the first person in a landing craft shot dead when he stepped ashore in Japan! The A-bomb kept my dad, just back from Europe, from having to invade Japan.
The ONLY gripe they have about the Atomic bomb is it was one plane with one bomb that did all that damage.
If we had used 500 planes all loaded with firebombs and killed the same number of people people would say...”So what! it’s war!”
Just for the record, a day or two after the Nagasaki bombing we hit Japan with a large bombing force loaded with conventional bombs. Killed thousands and no one here complained.