[President_Elect_Shang]

First off as to the bombings, I feel that there had to be an alternate way to overcome the Japanese and bring peace, for peat’s-sake it’s an island, blockade it. Not the best idea but you get the point right? As to the comments about revisionist history, I have seen a plethora of alternate ideas and explanations. Many of which appeared well thought out and valid, to me at least.

The big point I see in this thread is that hindsight is not truly 20/20. By this I mean to say that today we can only speculate as to the emotions that played a part in the making of the [two] decisions to drop. It would be nice to have an accurate record since, as we all know this is sometimes the biggest factor in any decision. Cool heads don’t always prevail. To this I can at least concur whole-heartedly.

The other item I would like to touch on is that here in America the Revolutionary War is discussed in some High School classrooms in more depth than WW2 is. Why is that? Are the leaders of this nations school system (yes it is my nation also) afraid to admit that we committed what can be easily argued as one of the most horrid acts of humanity. It is done and in the past. I think it should be taught in every school around the world in the hopes that facing similar circumstances those teens, now turned adults will not make the same mistake. Isn’t that why we teach our children, so that they will be better than us?