Ethics,  Stoppers,  War etc

Pilger’s Bilge

The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century
The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims’ names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East

So argues John Pilger at Comment Is Free…

Perhaps we should just have surrendered to the Japanese. Wasn’t that the unexplored option? At least we wouldn’t have had blood on our hands. War is bad, m’kay.

It can’t be long before a writer at CiF characterises the US response to Pearl Harbour as a racist, Imperialist war of aggression against a nation they’d dehumanised as “yellow people” calculated to further American industrial interests in the Pacific…

David T adds:

Be sure to read both Norm and Kammo on this subject.