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Friday, August 05, 2005

Hiroshima Perspective 60 Years Later

The morality of Truman's decision to drop the bomb and end WW II? That's an easy one in my opinion, and that of then 13 year-old Tomiko Morimoto West:

"If it was not for the atomic bomb, we [Japanese] were in such a mental state, we would have fought until the last person," said West, who was taught as a little girl how to fight with a sharpened bamboo stick in the event of an invasion.

The same question will persist about Iraq for years to come. Meanwhile, if anyone bothered to ask the Iraqis themselves, they all give the same answer...well, except for Zarqawi and his thugs, who the MSM would use as their interviewees.