President Barack Obama recently became the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, one of the two cities decimated by atomic bombs dropped by a B-29 bomber on August 6, 1945 in an effort to defeat the Japanese and halt the war in the Pacific. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, and six days later the Japanese surrendered, bringing World War II to an end.
In recent years it has become chic in some circles to criticize the United States and insist that the atomic bombing of the two cities was unnecessary. The huge loss of life to that point in the war and the Japanese ethic of fighting to the death would clearly indicate otherwise, but the Left is always anxious to criticize the United States and to attribute all U.S. actions to imperialism and unworthy objectives, not the least of these being Barack Obama.
There are those in Japan and other countries who demand that the United States apologize for the use of the atomic bomb 71 years ago, and that is exactly why former U.S. presidents have refused to visit the site. While Obama did not go so far as to apologize, his presence was a mistake and yet another display of his very poor judgement and understanding of geopolitical symbols and actions. And while there are those who will continue to call for America to apologize to Japan, the Koreans and the Chinese will not be among them.
The atomic bomb that the U.S. used was not just a means of halting atrocities against America, it halted the terrible violence the Japanese had inflicted on countries throughout the Pacific, and particularly on Korea and China. Obama seemed to be completely ignorant of that as well.
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If only the Japanese PM would go to Pearl Harbor that’s where it all began!
We judge a Presidency by measurable metrics. Dead Americans, spending, jobs growth, policy, stock market etc not some rubes Ill-informed worthless opinion.$#%&!@* Obama has done more for Americans simply getting rid of pre-existing conditions than all Republicans combined over the last 50 years have done.
what a traitor and a big P***Y
I say, don’t invade & kill us & we wont blow you all to hell!
we won’t repeat the evil unless they do you moran
Did this anti American, anti semitic, affirmative action loser mean the attack on pearl harbour?
Perhaps it was not as much of an evil as the media and educational system has suggested. In fact this evil stopped the fire bombing that were killing twenty to seventy-five thousand a night, it stopped the mass killing as the citizens ran into fifty caliber machine gun fire, it save a million American lives, it stopped the USSR in its tracks, they had the largest army in Europe at the time and were ready to take Europe Yes, that evil, which is a lie for American to state we are to blame was in truth the reason you were born. The USSR, Japan and Germany all were trying to make a bomb. Understand if Japan and Germany or the USSR had produced one, or more history today would not be the USA is sorry because there would be no USA!
Why aren’t you in the U.S.A. honoring our war dead. Traitor
No you stupid coward communist p***k, you would have just surrendered it to the Japs. You fail to even mention they attacked us you stupid p***k!!! Now you’re telling the American people and our enemies you wouldn’t do a damned thing if an enemy wants to attack us today!!!! You’re a coward traitor and a moron unfit to be in this country!!! You frigging idiot, why dont you watch film of Jap trainee’s taking American prisoners and use them for bayonet practice??? Damn you, you’re unfit to be on the sacred ground our warriors are buried in, get your$#%&!@*out of there you coward p***k!!!
wanna bet.. if we get attack the gloves come off, enough of this$#%&!@*footing around