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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (12788)7/31/2005 12:31:46 AM
From: CYBERKEN   of 35834
 
Actually this nonsensical drivel has been around since the day the bomb was dropped. It got more attention decades later, as left wing academia emerged to be active opponents of America and the American way of life. Yet it makes no more sense to any American who actually LIVED through 6 years of world war than the "Elvis [er-oops: HITLER] is still alive" nonsense, that has run since his death (Hitler's, not Elvis') was announced by the Nazis in 1945. The leading factor in the bomb decision was the Japanese resistance on OKINAWA (also "catastrophically hopeless") which was the only tangible reference point at the time...

<<The first is that Japan's situation in 1945 was catastrophically hopeless. The second is that Japan's leaders recognized that fact and were seeking to surrender in the summer of 1945. The third is that thanks to decoded Japanese diplomatic messages, American leaders knew that Japan was about to surrender when they unleashed needless nuclear devastation. The critics divide over what prompted the decision to drop the bombs in spite of the impending surrender, with the most provocative arguments focusing on Washington's desire to intimidate the Kremlin. Among an important stratum of American society--and still more perhaps abroad--the critics' interpretation displaced the traditionalist view.>>

The Truman administration-like the Roosevelt administration before it, SINCERELY and ACTIVELY promoted the Stalinists' initiating participation in the war with Japan. THAT was a mistake (as Churchill attempted to point out) but it was what it was. The "intimidating" and other Cold War tactics came LATER. And the rest is, of course, history (unrevised)...
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