Hard times, tough times do foster a wonderful feeling of resilience in people. War time is possibly a good example of that. I mean war as in WW2, not the futile war fought in the Falklands at the whim of a whiskey-dependent mad woman in charge of the UK at the time. That was jingoism at its worst. Jingoism in its modern-day form (aka racism) was also seen in the UK before and since Brexit. The sense of resilient feel-good -pull-together-because-we -are -all- in -the- shit feeling was possibly last experienced en-masse during the heavy bombing of the UKs major cities and dockyards during WW2. I guess it was also felt to a degree in the aftermath of some terrorist attacks in London. I lived…
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The Dropping of the Bomb on Hiroshima was horrific
Published by Stephen Bentley on August 5, 2015The dropping of the A Bomb on Hiroshima was horrific. The above article by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of the BBC (The ‘sanitised narrative’ of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing) is full of reminders about the terrifying impact the dropping of the bombs had on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the survivors. In it he uses Jamal as a vehicle for articulation of current American thinking about Hiroshima. Jamal is a young man and a student at Princeton University in the USA. The article appears to me to be a criticism of how and why the decision behind the dropping of the bomb has been viewed in America since the end of WW2. It appears to urge a rethink on the ‘sanitised narrative’. I would have to add…