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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (30897)5/27/2002 2:10:34 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I whole-heartedly approve of the A-bomb use in WWII and disapprove of the fire bombing of German cities.


I agree with you. "Bomber Harris" really went over the line in Dresden. Britain ought to take his statue down and put up one to Field Marshall Dowding, the man most responsible for winning "The Battle of Britain.

I am reading, "With the Old Breed, At Peleliu and Okinawa", Gene Sledge's account of his Marine combat experience in WWII. It is considered one of the finest books on combat ever written. It shows that the combat with the Japanese was so fierce that we would have taken unbelievable casualties if we had invaded Japan proper.

Everybody involved is very happy the bomb was dropped, and, having read the opposition over the years, they are seem to be mainly pacifists who would have rejected going to war in the first place. Truman never had a doubt.
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