Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru

Thank you for this. This has been sitting badly with me since I read it, and I wasn't yet sure how I wanted to respond. This is a good start.

I cannot believe the suggestion that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were America's greatest wartime atrocities--and should not have happened--is so open for debate. They were monstrous acts. Deplorable. America's greatest failure of humanity. It's that simple.