The b@$tards attacked us at Pearl on 12-7-1941. Everywhere we fought them in the Pacific they fought like hell and rarely surrendered costing many American lives. Truman did the right thing by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki as it saved thousands of American lives by avoiding an invasion of Japan. As it turned out it was the best thing that ever happened to Japan. We rebuilt them with taxpayer money and now they are one of the leading economies in the world.
I agree that Hiroshima was justified but how are your examples a justification ? Pearl Harbor was a naval base. Good for them if they fought like hell wherever we attacked them. Isn’t that what they’re supposed to do?
I think it’s an important distinction that Truman did not bomb Japan, he acceded to the military strategy of bombing Japan. And for good reasons.
It’s a distinction little made, let alone contrasted with the dichotomy of leaders of the current era, responsible for demoralizing ROE and leaving behind the prior strategies of both ‘winning the war’ as well as ‘winning the peace’...