In this Pajamas TV video, Bill Whittle responds to this statement by Jon Stewart:
It’s a 15 minute video but well worth it. It will give you all of the intellectual firepower to battle liberals over the topic of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is overwhelming evidence justifying the bombings and frankly I am slightly surprised that it is still a hotly debated issue.
Either way, Bill Whittle’s argument is factual, comprehenisve, and brilliantly articulated. I can not recommend it enough.
Jon Stewart later apologized for his comment.
Jon Stewart failed history, obviously. He said he “hoped we didn’t use waterboarding”. Has he never heard that we actually had to use BLOW TORCHES? No grasp of who that enemy was and how difficult they were to conquer. No grasp of who our enemies are now and how difficult it will be to conquer them (which will take more decades, btw).
Truman told the Emperor that we had this new weapon and what it was capable of and that we intended to use it (in those civilian areas that were critical to the infrastructure of Japan’s war machine)—Hirohito said “pffffft”. Truman dropped the bomb. Still Japan refused to surrender. Truman told the Hirohito we had a second bomb, what it was capable of, and that we intended to use it. Again the Emperor said “pfffft”. We dropped the second bomb at Nagasaki.
What many Liberals (and even others, with no grasp of history) do not know is that for a THIRD TIME Truman warned the Emperor that we had a third bomb (a bluff, we did not at that time) and would use it—and still it took some 6 days for the Emperor to quash his military commanders and agree to surrender. And that was only after an additional city was bombed with conventional bombs, and Japan’s entire oil production capability was decimated, making continued warfare untenable.
In many, many ways radical Islam is much like the Japanese, who view their Emperor as a God on earth, a divine being for whom they were willing to become suicide fighters; they would never have surrendered without the approval of the Emperor. Fighting on the Japanese mainland would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Allied deaths. Truman, a veteran of trench warfare in WWI, understood that you have to win a war. You have to weigh the loss of hundreds of thousands against only thousands, and if it will end the war, you end the war. I will never understand a Commander in Chief who would not want to take a side, emerge a victor.
Truman was a strong leader, and a principled man. Jon Stewart is a dandelion.
you people suck. we (the liberals) won!!!!
you people cant even see it happening around you.