60 Years Later

Considering Hiroshima.

Victor Davis Hanson writes about the history of WWII in this essay that looks at the use of atomic weapons against the empire of Japan. These days the politically correct crowd has plenty to say about how America was wrong to use those bombs, but somehow they never seem to be able to explain the reasons why it would have been better to go the much more bloody route of a conventional invasion. Thinking historians, such as Hanson, are in agreement that such an invasion would have cost many more lives both American and Japanese. But this never seems to enter into the calculations of the "America is always wrong" cocktail party set.

Thank goodness they weren't running things back then.