It’s always tempting to second-guess things like this, but it was the best decision that could have been made at the time with the information available at the time. Hundreds of thousands of troops were expecting to have to fight (and die) to take the home islands as hard as they just had for Okinawa. And countless Chinese were still being tortured and murdered.
The idea that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima — and, since the Japanese failed to surrender, of Nagasaki on August 9 — was a ‘war crime’ has slowly acquired currency not only among the anti-American intelligentsia but also among other sentimentalists of limited worldly experience.
That Islamic terrorist (who, remember, doesn’t exist) tried to shoot up Garland, Texas with a gun from Fast and Furious (the stonewalling on which in the “most transparent administration in history” resulted in the Attorney General being held in contempt of Congress).
I haven’t been following the fiasco that closely, but Richard Fernandez has some thoughts:
The reality of modern day information combat is that China can win a war without killing a single person or disrupting a single reality TV show. What if America could lose World War 3 and not even know it, especially if it relies on its politicians to tell it an attack has occurred.
She is one of the most, if not the most impressive and clearest speakers in the race. As Andrew notes, she handles herself and unscripted questions very well, no umms or aahs.