Sunday, May 03, 2009

 

Harry S Truman is a Hero. Not War Criminal

Last week, Jon Stewart called President Harry S Truman a war criminal for dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan. Growing up during and after Harry S. Truman's administration I leaned of the wonderful job this man did at bringing World War II to a close. I don't watch John Stewart, don't really care about him, but to call President Truman a war criminal is ridiculous.

Today, one of the very best blogs on the net linked to Pajamas TV Bill Whittle, Afterburner. Here is the post from Power Line Blog with the link to Pajamas TV.

Power Line
Like Falstaff in reverse

Posted: 03 May 2009 08:54 AM PDT

Andrew Sullivan takes up the cudgels against Harry Truman from Jon Stewart, who threw them down after adjudging Truman a war criminal for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was dropping the bombs a war crime? Sullivan finds brilliance in the blogger who cites "a Japanese legal review conclud[ing] as much two decades after the fact."

Shakespeare's Falstaff claimed not only to be witty, but also the cause of wit in others. By the same token, Sullivan is not only stupid, but also (as we saw with President Obama drawing on Sullivan last week) the cause of stupidity in others.

Unfortunately, in his Prague speech, President Obama gave the sense that Americans have something to feel guilty about in using the atomic bomb to close out the war against Japan. Obama pronounced in his speech: "[A]s the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act." The logic is not apparent.

We stand unapologetically with Truman. Before the defamation of Truman goes much further, we invite readers to view Bill Whittle's compelling defense of Truman on Pajamas TV.

The video by Bill Whittle is compelling and well worth the sixteen minutes of the presentation. Take time to watch his wonderful defense and explanation of the President Truman's decision to drop the bombs.

A word on Power Line, John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson and Paul Mirengoff write and manage this blog. Their free e-mail, Daily Digest is a great read on a wide variety of subjects. The coverage is in depth and provides a great insight into not only our political situation but life in general.

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