President Barack Obama recently became the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, one of the two cities decimated by atomic bombs dropped by a B-29 bomber on August 6, 1945 in an effort to defeat the Japanese and halt the war in the Pacific. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, and six days later the Japanese surrendered, bringing World War II to an end.
In recent years it has become chic in some circles to criticize the United States and insist that the atomic bombing of the two cities was unnecessary. The huge loss of life to that point in the war and the Japanese ethic of fighting to the death would clearly indicate otherwise, but the Left is always anxious to criticize the United States and to attribute all U.S. actions to imperialism and unworthy objectives, not the least of these being Barack Obama.
There are those in Japan and other countries who demand that the United States apologize for the use of the atomic bomb 71 years ago, and that is exactly why former U.S. presidents have refused to visit the site. While Obama did not go so far as to apologize, his presence was a mistake and yet another display of his very poor judgement and understanding of geopolitical symbols and actions. And while there are those who will continue to call for America to apologize to Japan, the Koreans and the Chinese will not be among them.
The atomic bomb that the U.S. used was not just a means of halting atrocities against America, it halted the terrible violence the Japanese had inflicted on countries throughout the Pacific, and particularly on Korea and China. Obama seemed to be completely ignorant of that as well.
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—-Obama was not there to honor our fallen.
Well that’s both stupid and wrong . It was not evil to use whatever means at their disposal to save a million American lives which was the estimated cost to take the Japanese homelands . And we can not rule out that there will come a time when we must use that power again to save America
HOW COULD ANYONE BE SO IGNORANT OF OUR HISTORY.
Wrong Obama. If Japan were to strike Pearl Harbor again, they would be in for another surprise.
obama we didnt start the war we ended it we did not start slavery we ended it we didnt start the cold war we ended it democrats started the kkk not republicans and martin luther king was republican and a cristian and bad relations with cuba started with cuba not us.
obummer is such a loser it makes my eyes bleed!!
Only on the US right…
Evil your evil America is great we saved the world and you call it evil ,the Japanese were evil killing everyone and everything in there path ask the Chinese about evil dumb ass
YOU SPEAKIN FOR THE PATRIOT KILLERS AND COMMY STATE OF OREGON?
F**K you Obama they fucking started the war and I’m half Japanese!