Comments on: A dozen Guernicas: western war crimes http://peoplesgeography.com/2007/03/22/a-dozen-guernicas-western-war-crimes/ Creating people's geographies Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:27:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: War in the Air at Congregation of Muslim Bloggers http://peoplesgeography.com/2007/03/22/a-dozen-guernicas-western-war-crimes/#comment-11917 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:08:44 +0000 http://peoplesgeography.com/2007/03/22/a-dozen-guernicas-western-war-crimes/#comment-11917 [...] other anti-War writings- here, here and here. Powered by Gregarious [...]

]]> By: Curtis http://peoplesgeography.com/2007/03/22/a-dozen-guernicas-western-war-crimes/#comment-11874 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:23:52 +0000 http://peoplesgeography.com/2007/03/22/a-dozen-guernicas-western-war-crimes/#comment-11874 It’s always perturbed me that so many have such trouble understanding that the atomic bombing of Japan was quite indisputably not a prerequisite to Japanese surrender. It was clearly a demonstration pointed at Moscow, at a time in which U.S. intelligence drastically underestimated Soviet progress on their own atomic weapons, and overestimated Stalin’s aims for furthering a bloc in Europe (for instance, many military bosses in Washington were disseminating rumors as late as 1948 that Stalin was actively planning to invade as far west as Paris or even London.) I’ve probably mentioned this before, but Sidney Lens wrote an amazingly thorough account of the arms race from Roosevelt through Carter and he discusses the years 1945-49 in particular detail.

Similarly, the military occupation of Iraq was in no way necessary to unseat the Hussein regime. Of course, that objective was merely an unpleasant prerequisite for the true objectives of Operation “Iraqi Freedom” or whatever they dare to call it.

In reading about “Bomber” Harris I was instantly reminded of Curtis LeMay. And then I scrolled down.

Thanks for reposting this.

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