Defending Truman
Harry S Truman (no period on the "S," it doesn't stand for anything), as my father says, the "Last Great Democrat President," decided to drop the atom bomb rather than invade Japan. While it saved countless Japanese and American lives, anti-nuke activists and the MSM typically mark tomorrow, the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, by protesting nuclear weapons.
Not only was the bomb necessary in 1945, but it is necessary still some 60 years later. Nuclear weapons are insurance against large scale attacks from other nations- even those who also have nuclear capabilities. Since the Revolution, the United States has won wars by innovation. Washington's Army used tactics that created weaknesses in the British brigade line tactics. In the Civil War, the C.S.A. was outmuscled by superior supplies. The United States must continue to foster its technological superiority in war.
I am not calling for building more nuclear weapons of the kind we already have, but to increase our aresenal with better weapons, and to equip our military with superior technology to fight terror and tyranny across the globe.
Roosevelt, Truman, and Reagan all realized this. That is why American won World War II and the Cold War. And why we will win the War on Terror.
Not only was the bomb necessary in 1945, but it is necessary still some 60 years later. Nuclear weapons are insurance against large scale attacks from other nations- even those who also have nuclear capabilities. Since the Revolution, the United States has won wars by innovation. Washington's Army used tactics that created weaknesses in the British brigade line tactics. In the Civil War, the C.S.A. was outmuscled by superior supplies. The United States must continue to foster its technological superiority in war.
I am not calling for building more nuclear weapons of the kind we already have, but to increase our aresenal with better weapons, and to equip our military with superior technology to fight terror and tyranny across the globe.
Roosevelt, Truman, and Reagan all realized this. That is why American won World War II and the Cold War. And why we will win the War on Terror.
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