Ed Garvey on Hiroshima
Uber-liberal Ed Garvey has this post over at FightingBob.com, regarding the anniversary (today) of the US dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
If there is a better example of eye-rolling, heavy-sighing, shoulder-slumping, nonsensical liberalism than Ed Garvey, please do not expose me to it.
He begins:
Hiroshima is, indeed, something that should be remembered with horror. If only Garvey and the left were willing to do what it takes to prevent another such necessity, I might actually take that paragraph seriously.
"As if?" They didn't get the message, Ed. The message was: surrender unconditionally. They got that after Nagasaki, which spared them a third one.
Incidentally, anybody know whether there was going to be a third one? I'll look it up later.
No, millions of people died because a single, megalomaniacal and homicidal human being - Adolf Hitler - began invading his neighbors, and didn't stop until he was forced to.
And don't forget, negotiation, appeasement, and settlement were given a chance - or has Ed never heard of the Munich Agreement and Neville "Peace In Our Time" Chamberlain.
That's not difficult to imagine for any of us who grew up during the Cold War. If I can point this out without seeming snarky, it seems to me leaders did find a method of solving disputes: they used the bomb to solve our dispute with Japan, then used the threat of more bombs to prevent another major conflict throughout the Cold War era.
Whatever "concept" Garvey is talking about, the UN left it behind long ago. It is a useless, corrupt organization, staffed with arrogant bureaucrats who see no difference between legal democracies and brutal dictatorships. If these are the "concepts" we are supposed to believe in, then I wish President Bush had sent someone else to the UN. Pat Buchanan, maybe.
If there is a better example of eye-rolling, heavy-sighing, shoulder-slumping, nonsensical liberalism than Ed Garvey, please do not expose me to it.
He begins:
"The first book I recall given to me by my parents was Hiroshima by John Hersey. I read it and could not stiffle my horror. We did not know then how many would ultimately die of cancer, but more than 100,000 died from the blast."
Hiroshima is, indeed, something that should be remembered with horror. If only Garvey and the left were willing to do what it takes to prevent another such necessity, I might actually take that paragraph seriously.
"Then, as if the Japanese did not get the message, we dropped another one on Nagasaki."
"As if?" They didn't get the message, Ed. The message was: surrender unconditionally. They got that after Nagasaki, which spared them a third one.
Incidentally, anybody know whether there was going to be a third one? I'll look it up later.
"We must all pause and remember this dark period. Imagine the notion of World War. Millions of people dying because leaders could not communicate."
No, millions of people died because a single, megalomaniacal and homicidal human being - Adolf Hitler - began invading his neighbors, and didn't stop until he was forced to.
And don't forget, negotiation, appeasement, and settlement were given a chance - or has Ed never heard of the Munich Agreement and Neville "Peace In Our Time" Chamberlain.
"Imagine one bomb causing hundreds of thousands of deaths because leaders could not find a method of solving disputes."
That's not difficult to imagine for any of us who grew up during the Cold War. If I can point this out without seeming snarky, it seems to me leaders did find a method of solving disputes: they used the bomb to solve our dispute with Japan, then used the threat of more bombs to prevent another major conflict throughout the Cold War era.
"We then took the lead in forming the United Nations. And 60 years later our president appoints an ambassador to the UN who does not believe in the concept. Are we doomed to repeat Hirohima and Nagasaki?"
Whatever "concept" Garvey is talking about, the UN left it behind long ago. It is a useless, corrupt organization, staffed with arrogant bureaucrats who see no difference between legal democracies and brutal dictatorships. If these are the "concepts" we are supposed to believe in, then I wish President Bush had sent someone else to the UN. Pat Buchanan, maybe.
posted by Lance Burri @ 5:45 PM
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