Anti-Imperialism, War and Peace, Part 8c
Horoshima
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
To underline the ruthlessness
of the Imperialist enemy, we can quote as follows:
“the US
decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... was meant to
kick-start the Cold War [against the Soviet Union, Washington's war-time ally]
rather than end the Second World War”.
This statement is taken from
Norm Dixon’s article “Hiroshima and
Nagasaki: Worst terror attacks in history” published in Green Left Weekly,
August 3, 2005 (attached; download linked below).
The two worst-ever terrorist
attacks in history, by far, were perpetrated by the USA, for the most cynical
and mendacious reasons.
Images of what resulted in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are abundantly available on the Internet but the ones
that show people, whether alive or dead, are too terrible to use here.
To this day the USA does not
face up to what it has done by these two vile acts.
This course is on
Anti-Imperialism, War and Peace. We cannot leave this thing out. We have to
note that the US power that did these unspeakable things is still active in the
world, and is still, as it was then, active in the cause of its own dominance
over the rest of us. The list of its crimes continues to grow longer every day.
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The above is to
introduce the original reading-text: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Worst Ever Terror
Attacks, Dixon.
