I found the one in the Weekly Standard to be very credible.
No references or no book in the offing or in print citing reference one
to back their article, with the authors being party and parcel to
numerous positions contrary to common, economic and environmental sense,
stubborn to the point of ignoring what is knocking at the door or
preparing to bite them on their [rusty dusty] or [whatever], and you
find it/them "to be very credible."
Getting a grasp of your general philosophy is just too easy Tom.
Something tells me I'd have to sacrifice a 4.0 in one of your classes.
Perhaps that´s my own personal bias.
You said it. The rest of us just sat back and observed it.
More government propaganda?
Well, actually Tom, in the immortal words of proficienados such as
Donald Rumsfeld?
"Why that's just silly."
See how easy that works? Just offer denial and "whallah!" Anything of
merit isn't worthy of any more consideration.
'Course, on the other hand, we all know why Rumsfeld popped up in Iraq
last week. He was leading a ground search for all those WMDs he knows
are "somewhere around Tikrit." I guess he should know.
Or was that just "propaganda?"
Todd Swearingen
Tom Irwin wrote:
Hi folks,
I hope everyone is reading all the attachments to articles on this
topic. I found the one in the Weekly Standard to be very credible.
Thanks Greg and April for this information. Perhaps that´s my own
personal bias. How would you attack this Chris B. and Hakan? More
government propaganda?
Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
From the August 8, 2005 issue: Sixty years after Hiroshima, we now
have the secret intercepts that shaped his decision.
by Richard B. Frank
08/08/2005, Volume 010, Issue 44
Tom Irwin
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*Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] The myths of Hiroshima
doug,
<*Part* of the Japanese government was trying to find a way to
surrender,
you've been misinformed. this is a misrepresentation of the facts.
it was
hirohito himself, quite on his own, that asked the soviets to
mediate a peace.
later, the government junta voted unanimously in favor of sending
an envoy to
moscow. the peace faction and the hardliners had their own reasons
for
supporting the idea, but the point is that they took that action
in the first place
because hirohito wanted them to.
these events transpired because the situation in japan was
progressively
deteriorating. there were growing fears that total social and
economic collapse,
and, therefore, most likely political collapse as well, were imminent.
furthermore, it was not the united states' intent to force a quick
surrender
by using the bombs. that simply did not enter into the calculus
i.e. saving
so many american or japanese lives was not the motivation for
nuking japan.
>It's not clear that the U.S. population would
>have accepted just hanging around fully mobilized at war waiting for
>six months or a year until the Japanese
you're presenting kind of a worst case scenario of how a blockade
strategy,
as opposed to invading, might have unfolded. besides, the
disposition of the
american people is a red herring and highly speculative (another
echo of the
'aussie gun control' argument). nor does it have any bearing on
whether or
not bombing hiroshima and nagasaki were inhumane.
-chris b.
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