--- Russell Grinker <grinker at mweb.co.za> wrote:
"On the 62nd anniversary of Hiroshima, read Mick
> Hume's essay on how the dropping of the A-bomb was
the final act of a bitter race war in the Pacific."
Without in any way denying the factor of racism, you should also read James Carrol's House of War -- the history of the Pentagon -- which shows convincingly how interservice rivalies, careerism and political expedience pushed the Pentagon, and it's favored strategy of conducting war from the air, into a commanding place in American public policy.
BobW
> Monday 6 August 2007
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> Hiroshima: the 'White Man's Bomb' revisited
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> On the 62nd anniversary of Hiroshima, read Mick
> Hume's essay on how the
> dropping of the A-bomb was the final act of a bitter
> race war in the
> Pacific.
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http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/printable/3708/
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