68 years ago today
We reduced Hiroshima to a pile of rubble.
Using nuclear force was a difficult decision but it was also a lifesaving one for many people, many more people than the bomb destroyed. We have lost the will to use that power, and as a result, a lot of people are in a bad way.
You thinking a glass parking lot in the middle east or somewhere else?
I think we have enough energy sources in this country if we could not use the ME for a 100 years or so thinks might work out.
Paul, if it was just “us” driving the middle eastern train wreck (or at least bankrolling it via the buying of their “black gold” … or is that phrase now racist too…), than I would agree with you.
But we are not the only kid on the industrialized block buying their gunk. So though it would sting em, they would still get by, admittedly at a slower pace.
Better that we find, develop, and use our own resources (and get rid of the many annoying EPA/environmental wienies mandates to what is required to be mixed with said petroleum products). And at the same time tell the rest of the world to FOAD…specifically (but not limited to) those fine folks of the Islamic persuasion.
I’m not to sure but the rest of the world, after loudly condeming us, would line up the tankers to get the oil from us.
Capitalism is a cruel mistress.
Dropping the bomb wasn’t a difficult decision. Dropping the bomb was an easy decision. Neither Truman who ordered its use, nor Groves who saw to the development nor Tibbets who actually delivered it ever lost a night’s sleep. Responsible people involved in the decision who opposed it were a minority.
The moral, ethical and physical questions that deployment raised came later, and were largely the result of a post-hoc synthesis that arose years later, influenced by the massive stockpiling of far more destructive nuclear weapons by the USSR and the West and by environmental factors that none could foresee in 1945-that is, that we could destroy the human race completely, many times over, or at least render it a very minor species.
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Where is it in the world that you see a perceived lack of will to use weapons like these as a problem? Who are the people you refer to who are in a bad way because of a perceived lack of will to use weapons like these?
Nowhere, mike. If you cant see it i cant show you.
I’m a cockmonkey that loves to piss in the comments of people whose ballsweat I am unfit to drink. I love to be assfucked by camels!
And the blind is also stupid. Big surprise.
Og, ran across this earlier:
“…Anyone who actually fought in the Pacific recalls the Japanese routinely firing on medics, killing the wounded (torturing them first, if possible), … The degree to which Americans register shock and extraordinary shame about the Hiroshima bomb correlates closely with lack of information about the Pacific war.”
Really, Mike. Those sort of thoughts should be inside thoughts. I know you to be incapable of reason, and I choose not to waste my time on you. As I pointed out; if you can’t see it, you’re already deliberately obtuse and incapable of being educated. Pick the bong back up, take a big hit, and crank up the Yes and fantasize about spanking bigassed broads that wouldn’t piss in your mouth if your teeth were on fire.