Obama’s
Hiroshima Visit Will Give New Meaning to
Meaningless Publicity Stunts
By Riley
Waggaman
May 24,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Huffington
Post"
-
America’s
trusted political pundits are all hot and
bothered by Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to
Hiroshima. Will our Nobel Peace Prize-bedazzled
president apologize for his nation’s “pragmatic”
decision to drop an atomic bomb on a city with
no real military value? (No.) After all, as the
National Review
was quick to point out, we killed far more
Japanese in World War II “the old fashioned
way.” So saying sorry just because we melted two
cities — killing an estimated 200,000 and
causing long-term environmental and health
problems which lasted long after the war — would
just be plain silly.
Another
reason that Barack Obama will not apologize
during his visit to Hiroshima is because Barack
Obama is “really good at killing people,”
according to a book which quotes a rather
boastful Barack Obama. This is coming from a
president who sends heavily-armed flying robots
to far away lands in order to hunt nameless
military-aged brown people. It’s a bit
unpleasant, but it’s all for the greater good —
much like the atomic payloads we dropped on
Japan all those many years ago.
With
the end of his last term in office approaching
in January, Obama will “highlight his
continued commitment to pursuing the peace and
security of a world without nuclear weapons,”
the White House said in a statement.
“He
will not revisit the decision to use the atomic
bomb at the end of World War II. Instead, he
will offer a forward-looking vision focused on
our shared future,” Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy
national security adviser, wrote in a separate
blog.
And as he
reads from the gospel of nonproliferation in
Hiroshima, Obama
will continue his $1 trillion upgrade of
America’s nuclear arsenal. Say what you will,
but the man is a seasoned multitasker.
Like his
non-barrier breaking visit to Cuba (his
“handshake” with Raul Castro says it all),
Obama’s “historic” visit to Hiroshima will be
yet another meaningless photo op that will give
new meaning to meaningless photo ops.
If
Obama really wanted to mend our complicated and
tragic past with Japan, he would order American
soldiers to finally leave that peaceful island
nation for good; sexual assaults and rapes in
Okinawa might decrease tenfold overnight.
And
just think, 75 years from now people are going
to be debating whether apologies should finally
be issued for Obama’s various crimes against
humanity. Isn’t kicking the can down the road
fun?
Follow Riley Waggaman on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/rileywaggaman
