Mike O'Malley
2008-08-13 10:11:45
“But to take the atomic bombing of Japan totally out of context and use it to highlight one nation or one city’s suffering is morally offensive.”
I agree with that.
It’s similar to highlighting only the 6 million Jews that died, and the ever-present focus on the Holocaust, all the while forgetting that 40 million! White Christians perished in WW2 too.
The bombing of civilian cities in WW2 started first when Churchill bombed Berlin. That led to Germany’s bombing of London, and then Allied bombing of Axis cities, including the fire-bombing of Dresden.
What Churchill started culminated in the A-bomb being dropped on 2 Japanese cities without much compunction.
