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It would be bitterly ironic if this turned out to be just another hoax of the left. The story is so cherished by the left! The folks who claim history is on their side are found to have falsified history–to make sure it in on their side. Huh.

It also shows how ideology has contaminated history. I guess we shouldn’t be overly surprised–the global warming “scientists” have been shown over and over to be merely shills for a certain opinion (and I hate that because it discredits science as one important way of knowing and calls everything into question–we are truly in the post-modern world and there is only opinion and no facts).

One of these days I need to talk about different ways of knowing…

moral hand-wring about dropping atomic bombs on Japan. But it was the right thing to do, both morally and tactically.

Is it moral to kill someone? No. But if that person is harming others, is it moral to it moral to kill him in order to save innocent others? You tell me. And what if the only way to stop it is morally reprehensible to you? Literally, damned if you do and damned if you don’t (if you believe in God).

General Patton is famously quoted as saying, “War is Hell.” I was told that the actual quote was, “All war is Hell.” Yeah, that’s true from a moral perspective as well as from a human suffering perspective.

The truth is that all war (and indeed all life, though that’s a topic for another day) puts you in a morally hazardous position. I’m not sure that this is able to be avoided.

That said, there would have been HUGE numbers of deaths on both the Japanese and the American sides had there been an invasion. There are friends of yours who wouldn’t be here if not for the atomic bombs. Maybe YOU wouldn’t be here.

There were more killed in the LeMay firebombings of Japanese cities than in the atomic bombs. Think about that. I’m not sure it matters a whole lot how they were killed.

Are atomic weapons disturbing and powerful? Yes. Does that mean the we, in a knee-jerk and unthinking fashion do away with them? I’m not at all sure. What it means is that YOU the people need to choose moral people to be in charge of such weapons. The issue is morality, not the possession of something that can be used immorally. Hence why it is so important to look at morality in elections, as well as overall competence. Don’t trust anyone who is not moral to be your leader.

Cheney was right about the reactor in Syria.

I know the left loves to demonize Cheney and say he’s “Darth Vader” and all that, but it’s not true. Cheney is the voice of reason. Many people were fooled into demonizing him, but they were wrong.

Now don’t get me wrong–I doubt very strongly that Cheney is perfect in every way. I’m just saying that this is a guy of sound judgment, and history bears that out. It has also shown that the critics were NOT of sound judgment. Those who are wise will admit their faults and go do better.

was Germany? Pretty dang close, actually. With a very small cadre of scientists and only grudging support by Hitler, they nearly got it. They just didn’t use enough Heavy Water. Had Germany developed the atomic bomb before the U.S., the course of the war would have been radically different. And they certainly were on track to get it. Had they actually invested in that program, they would have done it and the world would be a very different place. The ONLY reason we won was because they had no “super weapon.”

I think we forget how war-like and truly bloodthirsty and ruthless the Japanese were (the main allies of the Germans and they shared technology). I lived in Japan for nearly 3 years, and I was always amazed that the people who absolutely loved cutesy little things (I remember seeing many billboards with cute giants and cute animals saying cute things) had such a brutal history. And when I say brutal, I mean brutality that has rarely been seen in the history of humankind. Read a little about the “Rape of Nanking” and you will see what I mean. It simply goes beyond human description. It truly boggles the mind and it is truly Satanic.

Why? Why were they so brutal? I think a large part of it is that they were isolated and had many hundreds of years of privileged classes abusing others. It was part of the culture, and they did not even have a hint of a scruple when it came to abusing other peoples. The ruling classes had decreed it, and there was a very long history of not even questioning the ruling class. This goes at least back to the Shogan and Samurai. The “kill and depart” ethic of the Samurai was alive and well in WWII Japan.