Morita’s Book on United States
Morita hit it on the head for accuracy except for the first paragraph given in Pfaff’s column.
The dropping of the atomic bomb was no more racist than the equally brutal and unnecessary bombing of Dresden. Dresden was destroyed, along with over a 100,000 human beings, to deprive the Soviet Union of the economic base it would have contributed to the Eastern Bloc. It did not shorten the European war one day.
The atomic bombs were dropped on Japan to enhance American world “leadership.”
I feel no personal guilt for these crimes, as along with the vast majority of the citizens of the nations embroiled in this war, and all other wars, we had little control over what our leaders did.
Maybe if we were not so easily led to hate and fear our enemies we could avoid future wars.
LOUIS TEUCHERT, Lomita
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