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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: freelyhovering who wrote (136390)4/11/2010 10:57:42 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (1) of 542560
 
All decisions of that magnitude are made in the context of the politics/culture of the times. The prevailing sentiment (as absorbed by myself back then and in the subsequent 50's) is that the dropping of the bombs was the right move (as in the right move for us as a country--not as in some morality play).

If the decision came down to having the enemy civilians die vs. our soldiers--well you know the results.

Nobody I knew was gleeful about it (although they were gleeful about the war ending).

And you have to give credit to my districts School board which in 1959 opposed the VFW's demand for the teacher's head who taught, in the VFW view, "Hiroshima" too sympathetically.

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.
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