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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136484)4/12/2010 10:54:24 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542946
 
V. you write as if you think the only factor in the nuclear decision was something you are calling "national psyche." I know you don't believe that but you're writing betrays a certain single dimensionality.

No doubt Truman had that as one of his concerns; but McArthur's idiotic quest for total surrender, the anticipated Russian role in that part of Asia, various Japanese backdoor communications for peace, Truman's sense of his legacy, and an appalling lack of the sense of an empathetic sense one reads in transcripts of the decision making. And this is without going into the complexities of trying to make judgments about the "national psyche" in a nation as diverse as the US was in 1945. All that is part of the decision.

Truman's job, as he would have been the first to remark, was not to simply do as the electorate wished. He was adamant the he had to make what he thought was the best choice. And then be ready to pay the costs with the electorate.
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