Celebrated Mass Slaughter: The Anniversary of Hiroshima

Anthony Gregory on the anniversary of America’s dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945:

The only way to regard the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and so many other U.S. war campaigns, as anything other than state terrorism, is to define the concept in such an absurdly narrow way as to categorically exempt the U.S. from the definition out of pure convenience. If nuclear holocaust inflicted upon innocent civilians for the purpose of securing a diplomatic result is not terrorism, then there is no such thing.

Gregory also pushes back against the 67-year old propaganda line about how the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end WWII. Incinerating hundreds of thousands of people indiscriminately “was unnecessary in every strategic sense,” he reminds us.

Yet Americans still applaud the act of mass slaughter. As George Orwell wrote in his Notes on Nationalism, “there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side.”

2 thoughts on “Celebrated Mass Slaughter: The Anniversary of Hiroshima”

  1. Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was totally unnecessary–Japan was trying to negotiate a peace through neutral countries for at least two years prior to 1945, but thanks to Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill insisting on unconditional surrender needlessly prolonged World War II, and millions more died. As an aside, the "conventional" aerial fire-bombings of Tokyo and Dresden, Germany killed more people (100,000+) than the nuclear attacks on Japan, all acts committed by the so-called "good guys" in the so-called "good war".

    1. In August 1945, Japan was on the ropes. Nothing–zip, zilch, nada–was getting in or out of that country, owing to American naval and air supremacy. The Imperial Japanese Navy was on the bottom, or in port for lack of fuel. The Japanese merchant fleet–WHAT merchant fleet?!–was likewise deep-sixed. USAAF and USN planes bombed and strafed Japan at will.

      Harry Truman–the failed haberdasher, the "Senator from Pendergast"–was a war criminal for ordering the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Of course, there was no Nuremberg-type gig for Truman. Why? Well, he was on the side that won. That makes all the difference, don't you know. . . .

  3. What if one day Israel experience Hiroshima and Nagasaki?, will that day will became "anniversary for people in ME"? What would be pools result?
    Internacional Zionism will repeat those horrible days …and then tis "Evil ideology" will be burried forever and forever……Nothing will stand in the way for people of 4 corners to wage lasting Peace, Harmony and Universal Moral Codex… peter czech

  4. I was eleven years old when WWII ended. People in our small town were crying and laughing, sons and fathers would soon be coming home. Many innocent people had died all over Europe and Asia. How many will cry for them? I do not know how many died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki but I know my husband's brother died in Europe from a German bullet. Do not express sorrow for one without the other. Franklin Roosevelt died before the end of the war. He was a great presiden.

  5. My grandfather fought in WW2 and luckily survived it while others around him did not. Unfortunately, the tragedy in every war is the leaders always start them and get the young men to fight them while far more noncombatants are slaughtered, especially in the wars fought in the past century. And on it goes in the present day.

  6. And by the way, FDR was about the WORST President this country has ever had foisted on it, with the possible exception of Lincoln. He and his pack of Zionist advisors in his cabinet were pretty much responsible for starting WW2, goading the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor by freezing their assests in the USA and placing an oil embargo on them. He sure as hell would have ordered the atomic bomb used against Germany and Japan had he lived, and sent billions of dollars of war materiel to Communist mass-murderer Stalin, who was then allowed by the ailing, senile FDR to Communize half of Europe, starting the Cold War. At this point, only the rapidly thinning ranks of the so-called "greatest generation" who were duped by Zionist propaganda into fighting a destrtuctive fraticidal war against Hitler and our fellow ethnic Europeans still believes the drivel about Roosevelt being a "great President".

  7. Just read 'Freedom Betrayed' by Herbert Hoover. Warning: strong stomach required, even though Hoover's outrage is usually masked by the language of a gentleman and diplomat.
    Would that Mr Hoover had been a 5 term president …

  8. Nagasaki were necessary to end WWII. Incinerating hundreds of thousands of people indiscriminately “was unnecessary in every strategic sense,” he reminds us.

  12. The Atomic bomb saved US lives. For those of you who can't understand history, Japan was a war machine supported by its population. My grandfather was in a Japanese prison camp and the atomic bomb saved his life. The Japanese chose war…and paid the price for that choice. Some of you idiots need to understand how the world works and that sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire.

  19. Yet Americans still applaud the act of mass slaughter. As George Orwell wrote in his Notes on Nationalism, “there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side.”wedding limo

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