I just read a long opinion essay in a major Canadian newspaper less than 2 weeks ago specifically suggesting we should feel shame as Canadians for helping to create the bombs that were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And that as a country we should apologize to Japan for our role in those events. The uranium was enriched not 1 mile from where I sit and type this right now.
So this is how it starts. Don't imagine that there aren't those who work daily to discredit the good that came from the careful use of those bombs at that time.
Thankfully the comments in reaction to the opinion piece were wildly in favour of the author education themselves and shutting up.
But this crap will continue to surface. That's what the left does. Attempt to discredit all institutions and re-write history.
I saw that article CB, written by Sean Howard I think. That guy is a useless peacenik.
Yet still the best way to assure that the "nukin Japan twice was wrong" "movement" gains momentum is to talk about how luny it is.
Likewise the best was to end it is to assure that history is well taught to students. All of it. The good, the bad, the ugly and what you are scared to confront. Don't sugar coat it. Teach it like it was.
I wonder if Sean knew how the intentionally heinous treatment by the Japanese command of POWs, the Chinese, any female, indigenous peoples and so on was done by policy, if he would feel differently about the efficacy of these bombs.
I wonder if he was taught how the Japanese command ordered their own civilians to death to avoid capture on Okinawa, and that in turn lead the US military to anticipate the exact same result on mainland Japan, and favor the use of the bombs to prevent such a catastrophic loss of life.
This kind of stufff is the result of not properly educating people.
