This is a bit off-topic
even for me. But I have come
across an excellent compilation of refutations of those who say dropping The
Bomb on Japan was wrong.
I welcome the explanations
of anyone who thinks a ground invasion of Japan would have been better. Go ahead, have at it in the
comments. But it would not have
been better. It would have been
worse, much worse, for both sides with perhaps a million Americans dead and God
knows how many Japanese. And those
who would have done the invading were far, far more aware of that than scholars
since pontificating from academia.
And as for the puerile
thinking that Japan was the victim here, how can one dare say that in light of
widespread and systematic Japanese war crimes? Some Japanese politicians like to sweep those under the rug. We should not help them do so with
vomitous moral equivalence idiocy.
In any case, before I get
a really good rant going, go read for yourself. I will be charitable and just say if you think dropping The
Bomb was wrong, then you are wrong.
