Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Commemorating Hiroshima Message-ID: <438@kontron.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 12:48:44 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.438 Posted: Tue Aug 6 12:48:44 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 22:24:36 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 18 Why do I have a hard time taking seriously the various commemorative actions associated with the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima? Because there seems to be a sudden amnesia on the part of the Left about the other atrocities against civilian populations during World War II. Who painted shadows on the sidewalks of the world's cities to commemorate the dead of Dresden? Who castigates the bombing of civilian areas in London and Berlin? Where is the righteous indignation directed at Japan for the atrocities committed against the people of Manilla in 1944? All of these actions are just as morally indefensible as the bombing of Hiroshima; all of these actions involve similar levels of death and terror; but because the United States can't be blamed for them, these other actions have been forgotten. When will I take the various disarmament and anti-nuclear groups seriously? When they demonstrate a concern for all atrocities, not just those of the United States.