Their lives were also saved with the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Yeah, they, like Germany have relied on the U.S. for too long for their protection. They ought to be waking up to the cold fact that North Korea either has nuclear weapons or will have them in the near future. Also, North Korea is just desperate enough to launch them at the South and at Japan.

The implications of this are huge. Toss in the mix a rising China and Japan is in a tight spot. I guess one of the risks if Japan started re-arming would be that China would feel threatened and may attack or that North Korea would see its position weakened even further and toss nukes at everyone.

If Japan had been re-arming for the past 20 years, the situation may have been totally different. I guess we will never know what the effect would have been on China and North Korea if Japan had re-armed.

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are in many ways on the chopping block. I pray there is another way. But I am not optimistic.

The problem is that this is done while the brave Allies who fought the Pacific theater aren’t remembered come V-J Day. In theory I have no problem with our regretting the necessity of the atomic strikes, but as you say, that regret is terribly one-sided. Maybe during one of these ceremonies the Japanese government ought to apologize to the survivors.

Oh, and one downside to the terrible hammer blow to Japanese martial spirit – now they’re scarcely involved in defending themselves against the similar toxic brew of national pride and expansionist power exhibited by the ChiComs. I worry about Taiwan, but I’m also worried about Tokyo.

And nice site makeover, btw!

Wunderkraut explodes about yet another America-is-so-bad-because-it-used-nukes pile of crap. Feh. Just more pomo bullshit….

Added some… [Redfaced update] I’ve been meaning to add Wunderkraut for a long time but keep forgetting. Then, as soon as I finish this post the sneaky bastard sends me a trackback. Anyway, he is now there, replacing Jihadpundit who,…