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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (107439)8/15/2005 12:40:09 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Yes, so Jeff Jacoby has a different opinion on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And whoever wrote the plaque about the Enola Gay did also. Am I supposed to swoon and give up because a journalist and a plaque writer for an American museum have opinions on this that are pro nuclear bombing?

History as it is being experienced is very raw and colorful. It is often decades or even centuries before historians, political analysts, etc.--highly educated academics who know how to analyze data and are not simply American patriots--have all the data to even figure out what happened behind the scenes. I do think any intelligent person knows that what happens at the upper levels of government, including the real motivations behind decisions, is not something people who are involved in the history as it is being lived out are privy to. It often takes decades just to get all the material unclassified.

I thought you had an academic background. It it impossible for you to entertain the possibility that your understanding of what went on behind the scenes in terms of motivations re dropping these bombs might be inaccurate, and that the reality is much more complex (and less flattering to Truman) than what was perceived at the time? And that the books academic historians write later might be not only of interest but perhaps have valid theses?
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