From an Economist blogger in a recent post:
"...I doubt there will be an American apology in my lifetime for the holocausts of Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. I count them as atrocities, and don't buy the convenient line that they saved tens of thousands of American lives..."
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2009/10/history_wars.cfm
TW: My response to the blogger in a comment was "oh really, please explain", of course he never did, he just threw out a not unique but outrageous statement casually. As WWII fades from collective memory to merely long ago history, folks tend to bending history in different ways. The world was damn lucky the U.S. got the bomb first and used it only twice during a period of a week. Folks throw out names like Hitler and Stalin with no clue as to what those guys truly represented, likewise accusing the U.S. of holocausts is facile nonsense. Americans are naive idealists at times but usually (but not always) a better option than the alternatives.
From Tom Barnett:
"Without a doubt, it was a brilliant call by Truman that saved tens of thousands of American lives and far more Japanese lives. The villain in this show was never Harry [Truman], but the Emperor, who blithely let so many of his countrymen die in the futile final months of his regime's brutal war of conquest that brought untold suffering to people throughout Asia.
I have always found Japan's efforts to use Hiroshima and Nagasaki to cast Imperial Japan as innocent victim as one of the most distasteful lies of the 20th century--right up there with Holocaust deniers. That regime absolutely got what it deserved, and found some salvation only in serving as the warning to others regarding the damage nukes can cause."
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