"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ps.com...


Even today, the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an action that
many Americans feel must be defended as a good, right, maybe even holy
episode in our history. Voicing any willingness to examine whether
there were alternatives and whether in retrospect we still think we
chose the best if there were is an unpopular exercise even afer 60
years. Closer to the event, public sentiment in favor of the bombing
was
undoubtedly stronger. It was pretty courageous of MacArthur to voice
his private conclusions at any time, even if the doubts and
reservations he later expressed didn't prevent him doing his public
duty at the close of WWII.


You realize, of course, that one of the reasons Truman fired MacArthur
during the Korean conflict is because MacArthur publicly pushed for using
nukes on the Chinese after they (the Chinese) became involved.

Eisboch