Don’t Cry For Japan

August 6, 2005

By: Mike Talley

I was watching the news and reading on the web (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/japan.hiroshima/index.html) about the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II and I could not believe what I was hearing. The gist of it all is that Post Modern history revisionists (the Left) has been wringing their hands and bemoaning how evil the U.S. is because we are the only country to ever use nuclear weapons, and we used them on civilians! The horror.

Today they had the moment of silence and the releasing of the doves. In a way it is a rather sickening display for the Japanese people to be putting on. They have made themselves quite the victim, haven’t they? And the Left in this country and around the world have embraced the poor “victimized” people of Japan as a way to stick it to the U.S. This should not surprise anyone familiar with the Left. They tend to love dictators and mass murderers. Don’t believe me? Well just take a look at some of the Left’s idols:

Mao – Responsible for the death of over 50 million of his own people.
Che Guevara – Hit man and one man personal death squad.
Arafat – Responsible for the birth of modern terrorism.
Saddam Hussein – Responsible for two wars of aggression and responsible for the deaths of over 1,000,000 people.

See a common theme here? Well I do. Let me layout why the nuclear attack on Japan was not only justified, but also moral.

I know it is hard to do, after all the revisionist history we have been fed over the years, but take yourself back to Japan in the 1930’s. It was a very militaristic country hell bent on subjugating its neighbors. The Japanese army stormed into China and subdued most of the major cities. Including one called Nanking. Anyone remember the Rape of Nanking (http://www.tribo.org/nanking/)? Oh, that is where the poor little “victimized” Japanese army raped over 80,000 women and girls and then proceeded to kill over 350,000 men women and children.

The Japanese also enslaved Korea and forced many Korean women into prostitution in Japan and abroad. Just so they could satisfy their army’s lust. Not to mention several million forced into labor camps for the Japanese cause.

Then lets move on to the way that the Japanese soldier conducted himself in war. Prisoners were routinely tortured and killed. I am not talking about the Club Med “torture” at Gitmo or the naked human pyramids from Abu Ghraib. No lets talk about beheadings, actual torture and downright evil behavior towards our men and anyone else they capture. Many thousands of our POW’s were brutally killed by the Japanese.

When they fought, they fought to the last man. The later battles of the Pacific war were some of the bloodiest that the United States has ever had to endure. Iwo Jima and Okinawa were some of the most brutal fighting ever seen. The thought of invading mainland Japan was a very depressing one. It was estimated that the U.S. would suffer 1 million casualties, with 100,000 of those being killed. We could have done it, but we did not have to.

You are the President. You have been fighting an extremely bloody war against Japan. The Japanese soldier does not surrender and the Japanese people have been instructed to fight to the last man, woman and child. You look at the attack plan and see the casualties.

You go throw up your breakfast and come back to your desk…

Then, someone brings you word that a new weapon is ready to be used. This weapon will allow you to bring the war to an end without losing one of your men.

What would you do?

Don’t give me any “but they are civilians”, “it would make us no better than them”, “think of the women and children” crap. You do not even flinch. You give the order. The bomb is dropped…

Yet nothing (http://www.secondbreakfast.net/archives/002057.html)…Japan still wants to negotiate their surrender…so you drop another one and explain to the Japanese that you will continue to do this until they surrender.

End of war.

I know several hundred thousand people died in the two attacks. Yes, men, women and children. Am I happy that they died? No. Not at all. But by dropping the bomb you at least saved 100,000 American troops from dieing. Plus you saved more than 5x’s that number of Japanese soldiers. AND if we had invaded Japan and fought until they surrendered, more innocent civilians would have died than if we had dropped the bomb.

Dropping the bomb was in fact the most moral way to end a war of aggression. Yes innocent people died, lots of them, but the numbers of total dead and maimed would have been 10x’s higher if we had invaded. Also, the pure devastation of the bombs crushed the Japanese people. Their will to fight was destroyed thereby ensuring peace for the last 60 years. If we had negotiated with them, they would not have been a conquered people. They may even have retained their holdings in Korea and China. But the bomb cut out the militaristic heart of the Japanese people.

So, when you watch the ceremonies and see the doves, ask yourself where are the ceremonies and doves for the women and children of Nanking and Korea and the Philippines and everywhere else the Japanese army laid waste.

Yes, let’s never forget: That our ingenuity, skill and determination saved countless hundreds of thousands of lives. That we triumphed over a brutal enemy who to this day has a hard time remembering all the hundreds of thousands of people THEY killed.

Are Japanese victims? No.

In the world of cosmic justice, they got what they had been dishing out. Do not feel bad for them. Feel bad for the hundreds of thousands of THEIR victims. After all, who started the war?