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Instant Death
by Charley Reese
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One of the Americans interviewed who had participated in the raid on Hiroshima said that people who say we ought to nuke this or that country “are stupid jerks who’ve never seen a nuclear bomb. If they had, they wouldn’t say that.”
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I am afraid of politicians, bureaucrats, and pundit who don’t appreciate the real world facts. When they talk about using nukes, “turning the Middle East into glass”, and other bellicose bumper stickers, then imho convict themselves of stupidity by their own words. Maybe I am overly sensitive, In a College Theology course, one of the assigned reading was of the Jesuit priest who was near Nagasaki after the bomb hit. For sheer destruction, it was shocking. If I was the Lord High Sheriff of Nottingham, I’d condemn them to immediately go to Nagasaki and Hiroshima and adsorb what their words mean. But, I’m not the Lord High Sheriff, I’m not anything, other than one fellow who wouldn’t vote for them as Dog Catcher. To speak so glibly about such terrible consequences, shows me just how shallow they are. We don’t need leader like that. We need ones that understand that words have consequences.
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