Comments on: Obama To Apologize For Hiroshima? http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/11/17/obama-to-apologize-for-hiroshima/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-to-apologize-for-hiroshima Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Lindsay http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/11/17/obama-to-apologize-for-hiroshima/comment-page-1/#comment-2727 David Lindsay Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:51:56 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=1295#comment-2727 I quite agree, The Western Confucian. I quite agree, The Western Confucian.

]]> By: David Lindsay http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/11/17/obama-to-apologize-for-hiroshima/comment-page-1/#comment-2724 David Lindsay Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:26:21 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=1295#comment-2724 Hiroshima and Nagasaki have symbolic importance. That can be argued about. But it cannot be gainsaid as a fact of political life. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have symbolic importance. That can be argued about. But it cannot be gainsaid as a fact of political life.

]]> By: Thomas http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/11/17/obama-to-apologize-for-hiroshima/comment-page-1/#comment-2720 Thomas Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:47:04 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=1295#comment-2720 "I so sorry, Nihon, preeeeeeeeeeeeeez keep buying our junk T-bills, preeeeeeeeeeeeez hold on to those $$dorras$$." (but dresden deserved still deserved fire-bombing?) “I so sorry, Nihon, preeeeeeeeeeeeeez keep buying our junk T-bills, preeeeeeeeeeeeez hold on to those $$dorras$$.”

(but dresden deserved still deserved fire-bombing?)

]]> By: The Western Confucian http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/11/17/obama-to-apologize-for-hiroshima/comment-page-1/#comment-2715 The Western Confucian Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:38:44 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=1295#comment-2715 Excellent post, especially the first paragraph. But Reagan did at least one other conservative thing; he "cut and run" from Lebanon after the 1983 Beirut bombing, realizing that no vital American interest was at stake. Excellent post, especially the first paragraph. But Reagan did at least one other conservative thing; he “cut and run” from Lebanon after the 1983 Beirut bombing, realizing that no vital American interest was at stake.

]]> By: Mad Doc MacRae http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/11/17/obama-to-apologize-for-hiroshima/comment-page-1/#comment-2713 Mad Doc MacRae Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:28:39 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=1295#comment-2713 The problem I have with this is that then you'd have to apologize for all strategic bombing campaigns we waged. The firebombing of Tokyo was worse, at least in scale and lives lost, than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Do we apologize for that as well? I'm against the strategic bombing campaigns anyway and would say yes, but a lot of people who would be against using the nukes in Japan overlook the already horrific conventional bombing campaigns. The problem I have with this is that then you’d have to apologize for all strategic bombing campaigns we waged. The firebombing of Tokyo was worse, at least in scale and lives lost, than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Do we apologize for that as well?

I’m against the strategic bombing campaigns anyway and would say yes, but a lot of people who would be against using the nukes in Japan overlook the already horrific conventional bombing campaigns.

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