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AVoiceOfReason · 08-06-2005, 07:20 PM

With the benefit of hindsight, we can question whether the bomb should have been dropped on those two cites. But at the time, Truman had just come out of the Battle for Okinawa, losing over 10,000 military men. How could he, as the leader of our country, NOT use the weapons at his disposal to end the war as quickly as possible? How could he tell the soldiers wounded and the family members of those killed that he held back for fear of the geopolitical consequences?

For me, the wonder is not that it was used a couple of times in 1945, but rather that it's not been used since--Korea, Vietnam and Iraq by us, Afghanistan by the Soviets, and so on. It's a weapon--a horrible one that does much collateral damage, but a weapon nonetheless.

08-06-2005, 07:20 PM	#15 (permalink)
AVoiceOfReason Psycho Location: Greenwood, Arkansas	With the benefit of hindsight, we can question whether the bomb should have been dropped on those two cites. But at the time, Truman had just come out of the Battle for Okinawa, losing over 10,000 military men. How could he, as the leader of our country, NOT use the weapons at his disposal to end the war as quickly as possible? How could he tell the soldiers wounded and the family members of those killed that he held back for fear of the geopolitical consequences? For me, the wonder is not that it was used a couple of times in 1945, but rather that it's not been used since--Korea, Vietnam and Iraq by us, Afghanistan by the Soviets, and so on. It's a weapon--a horrible one that does much collateral damage, but a weapon nonetheless. __________________ AVOR A Voice Of Reason, not necessarily the ONLY one.