tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post4307501723598120194..comments2024-02-23T13:15:42.158+13:00Comments on Dissecting Leftism: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-64450453766838983642015-08-10T09:38:05.466+12:002015-08-10T09:38:05.466+12:00That article about the Japanese surrender is all v...That article about the Japanese surrender is all very interesting. However, it must be pointed out that Japan did not surrender after the <i>first</i> atomic bomb was dropped. It waited until the second had fallen. That might suggest that its intention to surrender was not quite as strong as many assume with the benefit of hindsight.Malcolm Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-84660363048718280052015-08-10T02:28:12.967+12:002015-08-10T02:28:12.967+12:00I must say, I am disappointed to see you joining t...I must say, I am disappointed to see you joining the "We should never have dropped The Bomb" chorus of the Anti-War (that doesn't spread Communism) Left. Is there some concatenation of circumstances in which an outbreak of divine wisdom on both sides could have prevented Hiroshima? Probably. But playing that is a mug's game. <br /><br />Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not really all that much worse than the conventional bombings of, say, Dresden. The Japanese were not, and are not, simple misunderstood peace lovers (they are, in fact, superficially polite raving bigots). Racism plays a part on the bombing less because of Truman than because FDR's largely unfounded sense of intellectual superiority lead him to underestimate the Japanese in the run-up to war. <br /><br />The lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are similar to the core lessons of all wars; when you lose a war, especially a war you started, bad things happens to you. Considering how the Japanese behaved in China (and elsewhere), they got off damn lightly.C. S. P. Schofieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307088118631856756noreply@blogger.com