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To: Grainne who wrote (107491)	8/18/2005 9:51:50 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Actually if you parse our earlier exchanges, my "fish-wrap" insult was directed at the Greenpeace article-writer, not at the Japanese professor's new book. I will now insult the Greenpeace gentleman a second time by saying that he is a lousy writer on top of everything else, IMO. As to the book, I do have curiosity about it and do not doubt that the author has sterling credentials. There were a couple of negative reader reviews on Amazon. In due time I will look into this further, and try to see where this author is coming from. Then I will decide whether I want to read it. I think is okay to prejudge a book on a controversial topic if you have credible evidence that the author is pushing an agenda. In that case, you can assume that the writer has been selective in assembling his case. In this vein, I do not know much about Stanley Weintraub beyond the dust jacket. His book is very long and you might want to see what you can find out about him before you invest time in it. My views on Hiroshima are shaped more by my recollections of the time than by anything I have read subsequently. For example, I know how desperately our nation wanted its men and women in uniform brought home, much in the same way as the "mothers for peace" want their sons and daughters brought home now. If a reigning president had a means to end the war, and didn't use it, he would have been eternally damned or worse. And there was no time to vacillate on the question. Period, end of exercise.