Does Modi remind anyone of Harry Truman? AND How does the world remember Harry Truman for his atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki? Stop another Hiroshima & Nagasaki from happening before it happens while you still can........ Leo Szilard was the world-renowned physicist who drafted the original letter to Roosevelt that Einstein signed, instigating the Manhattan Project. In 1960, shortly before his death, Szilard stated another obvious truth: If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was. The Paulist priest, Father James Gillis, editor of The Catholic World and another stalwart of the Old Right, castigated the bombings as the most powerful blow ever delivered against Christian civilization and the moral law. David Lawrence, conservative owner of US News and World Report, continued to denounce them for years. The distinguished conservative philosopher Richard Weaver was revolted by the spectacle of young boys fresh out of Kansas and Texas turning nonmilitary Dresden into a holocaust … pulverizing ancient shrines like Monte Cassino and Nuremberg, and bringing atomic annihilation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Weaver considered such atrocities as deeply inimical to the foundations on which civilization is built. The bombings were condemned as barbaric and unnecessary by high American military officers, including Eisenhower and MacArthur. The view of Admiral William D. Leahy, Trumans own chief of staff, was typical: the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. … My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make wars in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children. mises.org/daily/4838/Harry-Truman-and-the-Atomic-Bomb
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:22:39 +0000
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