Smackdown!

Pajamas TV's Bill Whittle issues a smackdown of monumental proportions to Comedy Central's Jon "Harry Truman Is A War Criminal" Stewart, and to all the cultural relativism, pacifist, America-hating collectivists out there.

Purely on the issue of the atomic bombing of Japan, my high school physics teacher was, as he put it, a "guest of the emperor" for the last year of WWII, at a sumer camp just outside of Nagasaki. He, like all his fellow campers--at least, those who were not being tortured at the time--was in The Mine at the time.

And then there's my friend, science fiction author John Dalmas. One day we were discussing the issue--possibly vis a vis Paul Fussel's essay Thank God For The Atom Bomb--and John started describing his own experience: Having completed jump school (the old five week experiance, not the modern three week abbreviated hell) he was on a troop train headed west which stopped in (I think) Albequerque for fuel on August 8th, 1945. He threw a kid on the platform a nickle for a newspaper, and

read the headline "SINGLE BOMB DESTROYS JAP CITY."

Well, I didn't have to be H.P. Kaltenborn to know what that meant. I stood up on my seat, held the paper over my head, and yelled "Hey, fellas! We ain't gonna die!"

Of course, they wound up finishing up the pacification of the Phillipines, so things were still a little dicey...