tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post3802104514244913581..comments2024-03-26T04:21:43.535-05:00Comments on Free Association: Hiroshima 62 Years AgoSheldon Richmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15672237234580563637noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-28600538618876206952008-06-03T04:56:00.000-05:002008-06-03T04:56:00.000-05:00POEM TITLE "COMEMORATING THE 1945 INNOCENT VICTIMS...POEM TITLE "COMEMORATING THE 1945 INNOCENT VICTIMS OF <BR/>THE BLIND JUSTICE AT HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI"<BR/><BR/>By Haider S. Jafari<BR/><BR/>A bench of some heads of some units<BR/>Decides to stop the six year long war<BR/><BR/>A decision of jury from an elegant nation<BR/>The barbaric judges from a big civilization<BR/><BR/>The aim was to stop the war on earth<BR/>War claiming so many lives of humans<BR/><BR/>To stop the war they ignited another chain<BR/>The nuclear chain causing human slain<BR/><BR/>The endless energy chain “mc square”<BR/>The Einstein equation all we admire<BR/><BR/>Then the Land of the rising sun<BR/>Was showered with “Supersuns”<BR/><BR/>The “suns” from a technical civilization <BR/>Took thousands from life to extinction<BR/><BR/>Within moments killed the harmless<BR/>Living in Hiroshima then in Nagasaki<BR/><BR/>The earth turned black the sky turned red<BR/>Smiling kids, harmless olds, all were dead<BR/><BR/>It was not a country that was bombed<BR/>It was humans who were massacred<BR/><BR/>The leaders had the differences <BR/>But the civilians paid the price<BR/><BR/>With bombs they tried to kill a nation<BR/>But what they killed was a generation<BR/><BR/>The world is now on the edge<BR/>Let us make a solemn pledge<BR/><BR/>Why not we destroy all big weapons<BR/>Before we are destroyed by these weapons<BR/><BR/>To all bomb droppers we must say “No No”<BR/>To all bomb makers and sellers “Go Go”Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06380886783929618667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-88466198431827882282007-08-09T13:06:00.000-05:002007-08-09T13:06:00.000-05:00"Why were the Americans the good guys in compariso..."Why were the Americans the good guys in comparison to the Nazis again?"<BR/><BR/>Oooooo! I know! I know!<BR/><BR/>Because the U.S. won!<BR/><BR/>Power is corrupt and tends to absolutes. What could be more absolute than nuking not one city, but two!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-76915442724133132212007-08-09T01:53:00.000-05:002007-08-09T01:53:00.000-05:00Its just sickening to think that the Americans wou...Its just sickening to think that the Americans would actually do that to innocent people when Japan was actually trying to negotiate peace. The yanks wouldn't accept any of that though, the relatively few lives lost and pre-planned attack on Pearl Harbor had to be avenged by obliterating two cities full of people.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Why were the Americans the good guys in comparison to the Nazis again?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-36724853826115316122007-08-08T16:04:00.000-05:002007-08-08T16:04:00.000-05:00Re the Cathy Young post:"Our side did terrible thi...Re the Cathy Young post:<BR/><BR/>"Our side did terrible things to avoid a more terrible outcome": Oliver Kamm.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, yeah. Tell it to the kids who were vaporized and the adults who were turned to shadows on walls.<BR/><BR/>"Here, I will say that my knowledge of World War II is limited": Cathy Young.<BR/><BR/>Funny how the those who keep an open mind on mass murder always say things like that.Sheldon Richmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672237234580563637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-58574575399919556962007-08-08T15:03:00.000-05:002007-08-08T15:03:00.000-05:00In 2002 aboard a cruise ship, I had the pleasure o...In 2002 aboard a cruise ship, I had the pleasure of dining with an elderly gentleman and lady, identified the previous evening as having the marriage of longest duration -- 55 years! -- on the ship.<BR/><BR/>Dinner conversation turned to politics, and I welcomed the perspective of someone decades my elder. Somehow the subject of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki arose, and in my pre-enlightenment stage, I defended their use by all the cliche arguments. The gentleman had been a U.S. Army soldier in the Pacific, so it was with shock that I listened to his bitterness and cynicism about the use of atomic weapons, thinking that his life was among those saved by their use.<BR/><BR/>He launched into a lengthy lesson about what I now understand to be the reality of history. It is possible that he set me on the road to anarchism, helped along by Jake Hornberger, Butler Shaffer, John Hasnas and of course, Sheldon Richman.<BR/><BR/>It's been a long, eye-opening journey and I'm looking forward to the next decades. Thanks to the brave and dedicated writers who keep ideas alive and help us to recognize reality!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-9978104373559433702007-08-08T08:41:00.000-05:002007-08-08T08:41:00.000-05:00But you and Charles must not have read Cathy Young...But you and Charles must not have read Cathy Young's deep thoughts on the subject: http://reason.com/blog/show/121813.html<BR/><BR/>Now then. Don't you feel chastened for your "extreme anti-Americanism"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com