AUGUST 6, 1945
On another anniversary of the dropping
of the first atomic bombs on Japan
we'll be hearing again, about how sad
and horrible was the US's method
of saving millions of committed lives.
Had the bomb not been developed
and dropped on two huge industrial cities,
whose people were enemies of the US,
the invasion cost would have been
an estimated two to three million lives.
While horrible beyond description,
the thousands of Japanese victims killed
or maimed in the two blasts, balanced the
scales of Imperial Japan's years of brutality
during military conquests of other nations.
In 1945, Allied leaders estimated that had
we invaded Japan instead, military and
civilian casualties would go over two million,
including thousands of America's young men,
so, the means of ending this long barbaric war
was justified by any method available to us.
For sixty years, misinformed persons go along
with an unapologetic Japanese campaign
to lament, condemn and berate atomic death,
but not Japan's fanatic depravity in killing
and raping its militaristic way to win in Asia.