(Less Ismore) wrote:
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We have formulated the following statement
of principles, which we
plan to circulate widely. The statement makes
clear that we are not
opposed to exhibiting the plane in a fair
and responsible manner,

And so long as you determine what is a 'fair
and responsible manner'.


but that we fear that such a celebratory exhibit
both legitimizes
what happened in 1945 and helps build support
for the Bush
administration's dangerous new nuclear policies.


So you want to re-write history in an effort
to critize a President
who was not yet born when they Enola Gay took
off and headed to
Hirsohima. And you honestly consider yourself
to be an "educator"?
Instead of a lacky for political correctness
and the political left.


Consider the following in a recent article by
economist and historian
Dr. Thomas Sowell:

"History is what happened, not what we wish
had happened or what a
theory says should have happened. One of the
reasons for the great
value of history is that it allows us to check
our current beliefs
against hard facts from around the world and
across the centuries."

"But history cannot be a reality check for today's
fashionable visions
when history is itself shaped by those visions.
When that happens, we
are sealing ourselves up in a closed world of
assumptions."


Also, that nonsence about W's nuclear policies
is exactly that. I
would expect that were the current President
not a Rebublican you
would ignore the Enola Gay exhibit. Even if
such a president had the
exact same nuclear policies as the current administration.


You people are worse than pathetic. Splash
some educational title
and degrees awarded in your email signature
and believe that you are
the only ones who can be allowed to direct and
critize public policy
and the popular culture. All this after never
having worked an
honest day in your life. Rather than continuing
the indoctrin-
ation of your students, why don't you instead
take the first honorable
action in your pathetic lives and retire. Leave
higher education to
those who still believe in the concept (assuming
that there are any).
I agree with the above: History happened, and you can't change it. Events
must be viewed in the context of the time-and to this day, many Americans
feel that the Bombs ended the war and saved American lives. I've got a BA
and MA in history and have no use at all for revisionists in any way, shape,
or form. Though the invasion would have succeeded, the price paid, even on
the low end, would have been dear. Mr. Truman had an option availiable to
him other than blockade/bombing and the invasion. He took the third option
and ended the war in a quick and brutal manner that forced the Japanese to
surrender in less than ten days from Hiroshima to Hirohito's speech.
Get over it, it happened, and that's that.

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