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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136406)	4/11/2010 12:36:05 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 542464

My main point is that if one is going to evaluate/critique the decision then one should take into account the circumstances and pressures faced by those who made the decision. Good point. But that's far from the only point. If you take Truman, for instance, the pressures on Truman were not only those from your neighborhood or even your neighborhood writ as large as reasonably generalizable. Which, as you know, was hardly the US neighborhoods themselves. Were there other options available besides loosing the nuclear demon--once out of the bottle hard to put back. There were. And they are laid out quite clearly in the several books that approach Truman's decision as a contextually based decision that called for ethical guidelines. There is, as you may know, much speculation that the final decision to drop the bomb had more to do with trying to keep the Russians out of the war in the Pacific than it had to do with saving American lives; or giving in to McArthur's demand for total surrender. In short, like all serious decisions, it was complicated. And putting yourself in the shoes of the time is a complicated exercise. Not simply a trip back to your neighborhood.

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