No Apologies for Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Only 20% of Americans polled think think the United States should apologize for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The other 80% say we are even steven because Yoko Ono has been in the country for decades.

I take polls like this with a heavy grain of salt. We are such an historically illiterate country, whether out of intelectual laziness or politically correct design of the curriculum, that I have doubts many of those polled could explai why or even when the bombs were dropped. How may thik it was direct reege for the attack on Pearl Harbor? An embarrassingly large number, I would wager.

But I will cast aside my cynicism for a moment and assume those polled have a grasp of the historical context. How many of them also believe Japan should apologize for the Rape of Nanking, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the ’comfort womn” system of sexual slavery it maintained for its military forces?

The sins of other nations seem to pale in comparison for our need to be the good guys. Nevermind that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki arguably were a far more humanitarian method of ending the war than a protracted, bloody invasion which would certainly have killed millons on both sides.

Check out all the statistics at the link above. While 20% thik we should apologize for ou actions during World War II, a sizable umber have no clue one way or the other. They are probably impressionable enough to be convinced one way or the other with equal veracity.

It is bemusing how much our sense of right and wrong has been warped. Wheter you want to chalk it up to moral relativity or political correctness, we do not know which way is up.