Obama Tried to Apologize for Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[Geee]

Front Page Magazine:

n 1938, after the disastrous Munich conference lit the fuse of World War II, a British Labor Party M.P. said, “It is perfectly true that we did not act, not merely wisely and generously, but even justly to Germany after the war . . . . I repeat that we bear a very heavy responsibility for the tensions and menaces of the present international situation.” This comment was an expression of the English “war guilt” that for the previous two decades had created sympathy for Germany and made it easier for England to ignore the serial violations of the Versailles Treaty that convinced Adolph Hitler his aggression would not be punished.

The historical lesson illustrated by Munich––that the road to appeasement is paved with guilt and apologies––has been confirmed by the behavior of Barack Obama. He set the appeasing tone of his administration in 2009, when he bowed to Saudi King Abdullah and sent the bust of iconic critic of appeasement Winston Churchill back to England. That June he confirmed his appeasing intent in his speech to the Muslim world delivered in Cairo. There, amidst flattering fantasies about Muslim “tolerance,” he attributed the “tension” between the West and Islam not to Islamic jihadist terror supported by Middle Eastern regimes, but to “colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.” After shouldering the blame for jihadist aggression against us, Obama then began his serial “outreach” to the mullahs in Iran, assuring them that he was “willing to move forward without preconditions on the basis of mutual respect.” Of course, this appeasing “outreach” failed miserably, merely emboldening the regime that, starting with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, has stained its hands with American blood, arms and trains the terrorists killing our soldiers in Afghanistan, and moves with impunity ever closer to possession of nuclear weapons.

And now a secret cable released by WikiLeaks reveals that Obama, on the 2009 tour to Japan where he bowed to the Emperor, wanted to apologize to the Japanese for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the war in the Pacific and destroyed one of the most brutal regimes in history. The apology never came off because, according to the leaked cable, Japan’s Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka told U.S. Ambassador John Roos that “the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a ‘nonstarter.’” No doubt the Japanese are not eager to revisit their past, which includes their barbaric behavior in Manchuria, where in 1937 hundreds of thousands of Chinese were murdered, tortured, and raped; or their torture, forced labor, and beheadings of Allied prisoners during the war, 350,000 of whom were still in Japanese hands in August 1945. For a taste of what life was like for prisoners of Imperial Japan, read the harrowing account of the Bataan death march in Michael and Elizabeth Norman’s Tears in the Darkness.


We should not be surprised, however, that a product of the left-wing university like Obama would embrace the notion that America committed a “war crime” for which it must apologize. It is academic orthodoxy that using atomic weapons in 1945 was unnecessary, an act not of military utility but of racism or geopolitical bullying. But the truth is very different, as anyone with a modicum of historical understanding and command of the facts can discover for himself. And those facts show that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved hundred of thousands, if not millions, of American and Japanese lives.

[RandyM]

Disgusting.

[NCTexan]

And those facts show that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved hundred of thousands, if not millions, of American and Japanese lives.

But if we had not been so quick to engage in war on December 7th... none of those lives would have been lost anyway.

 

(Or at least that's what the intellectually elite folks say.)

[Pepper]

And those facts show that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved hundred of thousands, if not millions, of American and Japanese lives.

But if we had not been so quick to engage in war on December 7th... none of those lives would have been lost anyway.

 

(Or at least that's what the intellectually elite folks say.)

NCTexan! RandyM! Geee!

 

Like capital punishment, this is a good litmus test if you have to chose from two people in a hurry - say in a car in a river with two people sinking and you can only reach in to save one.

[NCTexan]

Like capital punishment, this is a good litmus test if you have to chose from two people in a hurry - say in a car in a river with two people sinking and you can only reach in to save one.

Pepper!

 

That's easy... save the Republican.

 

That may sound hard hearted but it isn't really. Almost every DEM that I know is so full of "it" that they'd naturally float.