{"id":2119,"date":"2010-08-06T21:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2010-08-06T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T21:55:29","slug":"i_dont_think_any_modern_presid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Think Any Modern President Would Have The Courage To Do This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stroube Smith at the Washington Times<\/a> posted an article yesterday about the sixty-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.   Mr. Smith points out that Hiroshima was not a military target, but a civilian city.  <\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

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“In the war’s aftermath, there was second-guessing as to whether <\/em>Truman<\/em><\/font><\/a> should have authorized the use of the bombs. In reality, he had no choice. No leader of a democracy could reject the use of a weapon that could save a single one of his people’s lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Casualty estimates for an invasion of <\/em>Japan<\/em><\/font><\/a> were staggering. Estimated losses from a campaign to take the first home island ranged from 300,000 to 1 million. The Army was ordering body bags and medical supplies and trying to find medics, nurses and doctors to deal with casualties of that magnitude.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

President Truman made a difficult decision that saved both American and Japanese lives in the end.  The atomic bombs on Hiroshim and Nagasaki destroyed cities and killed civilians, but they ended a war and actually reduced the number of casualties.  We have currently forgotten how to fight with all we have.  I am hoping we will remember how to wage war successfully sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stroube Smith at the Washington Times posted an article yesterday about the sixty-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.   Mr. Smith points out that Hiroshima was not a military target, but a civilian city.  The article concludes: “In the war’s aftermath, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}