MY SAY: THE FIRST GOP DEBATE COINCIDES WITH THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AUGUST 6,1945
Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945, but the Pacific War dragged on. General Douglas MacArthur warned that an invasion of Japan could cost over a million lives. Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945 with the threat of “prompt and utter destruction”. Japan vowed to fight to the bitter end in the Pacific. General Douglas MacArthur and other top military commanders, who counseled a conventional weapon invasion of Japan, advised Truman that such an invasion would result in U.S. casualties of up to 1 million. Truman, who had only been president since the Spring of 1945, decided–over the moral reservations of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, General Dwight Eisenhower and a number of the Manhattan Project scientists–to use the atomic bomb. On August 6,2015 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese surrendered on August 15, 1945 bringing World War II to an end.
Ask yourselves, as I will, which of the assorted GOP contenders would have the guts of Harry Truman now that America is faced with an existential threat that could, in the estimates of many analysts, claim more than a million American lives….RSK
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