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Well this is a pretty simple argument.
First a picture of Hiroshima is not how I, or the vast majority of Americans, remember Pearl Harbor. The picture of an overturned Arizona and a smoking battleship row are far more evocotive of this day. A picture of Hiroshima on this day is, IMO, an insult to all the men and woman, who died that day- not realizing that the Japanese had, by their acts, acted in war against us and killed in cold blood without provocation. It is indeed a day which will live in infamy.
As to my second comment the answer is even simpler The world, and in particular Germany and Japan, are far better off today because we won that war. No one can say for certain what would have happened if the US, Britain and France had simply let Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini take what they wanted and kill whoever they felt like killing- or had they defeated us and conquered our homeland- and those of Australia, Canada and Britain.
But IMO anyone who thinks that the world would have been better off had that happened is, quite simply, a moron. Germany and Japan are thriving democracies not just because we won but because we helped them get back on their feet and treated them as friends- and not, as Japan treated the Chinese, like conquered subjects.
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