Elliot Abrams, a neocon and Cold Warrior, writes the
following in
National Review, with which viewpoint I may agree. He begins by quoting the intro of President Obama's speech given at Hiroshima on his recent visit, Obama said:
Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.
Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not so distant past.
Then Abrams reacts to Obama's words:
The problem with these words is their utter lack of context: There is no mention of Japanese militarism and fascism, no attack on Pearl Harbor, no Bataan Death March, no Rape of Nanking. It seems as though on one “bright, cloudless morning,” the United States decided to obliterate Hiroshima. This is another insight into how the president thinks about America and the 20th century: We were not the people who saved the world from fascism and Communism, we were the people who opposed nationalism and equality — and who dropped the atomic bomb.
So Obama has spent the past 7+ years apologizing to the world for America's reprehensible-to-him actions. These are the same actions of which most of us are proud. Many have found it difficult to believe Obama an American because his beliefs are not those of an American.
