Apologies Not Accepted

[AUJarhead]

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587698/201110111829/Apologies-Not-Accepted.htm

Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next president apologize for the current one?

The obsessive need of this president to apologize for American exceptionalism and our defense of freedom continued recently when Barack Obama's State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) contacted the family of al-Qaida propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to "express its condolences" to his family.

Khan, a right-hand man to Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed along with Awlaki in an airstrike in Yemen on Sept. 30. We apologized for killing a terrorist before he could help kill any more of us.

It's yet another part of the world apology tour that began with Obama taking the oath of office to protect and defend the United States and its Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, something he immediately felt sorry for.

One stop on his tour was Prague in August 2009. There he spoke of "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," ignoring that before 1945 we lived in such a world and it was neither peaceful nor secure.

Another stop on the tour was in Japan, where Obama in November 2009 bowed to the emperor, something no American president had ever done. It could have been worse if plans to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima to apologize for winning the war with the atom bombs had come to pass.

A heretofore secret cable dated Sept. 3, 2009, was recently released by WikiLeaks. Sent to Secretary of State Clinton, it reported Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka telling U.S. Ambassador John Roos that "the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a 'nonstarter.'"

The Japanese feared the apology would be exploited by anti-nuclear groups and those opposed to the defensive alliance between Japan and the U.S.

Whatever Tokyo's motive, Obama's motive was to once again apologize for defending freedom, this time for winning with devastating finality the war Japan started.

While Obama envisions a world without nuclear weapons, and moves steadily toward unilateral disarmament of our nuclear arsenal, we envision a world without tyrants and thugs willing to use them against us. We do not fear nuclear weapons in the hands of Britain or France, countries that share our love of freedom and democracy.

[RWS]

Fuck all that.

Why should America be sorry about dropping nukes? Japan dealt the first blow. They brought the fight to us. Diplomacy wasn't going to fix things, obviously. For that matter, it took a second bomb for them to surrender. Bottom line, nuking them was what it was going to take all along to end this.

And by the way, fuck this whole world without nuclear weapons. The rest of the world, for the most part, doesn't play by the rules. It's the same shit we're dealing with now. You have your countries, such as Iran, with clandestine nuclear weapons programs. If you outlaw nuclear weapons, then the only people that will have nuclear weapons are outlaws. The second we get rid of our arsenal, somebody is going to come over here and sucker punch us. I'm sick of this "Well, if more countries like us, then they won't want to come over here and destroy us anymore!" rhetoric.

We didn't get our image of being the most badass country on this planet by going out and kissing people's asses. We got it by wielding the biggest fucking stick around. I'm not saying we need to go out and start a bunch of fights for no reason, but we don't need to sit back and be a bunch of apologists either.

[GH2001]

Fuck all that.

Why should America be sorry about dropping nukes? Japan dealt the first blow. They brought the fight to us. Diplomacy wasn't going to fix things, obviously. For that matter, it took a second bomb for them to surrender. Bottom line, nuking them was what it was going to take all along to end this.

And by the way, fuck this whole world without nuclear weapons. The rest of the world, for the most part, doesn't play by the rules. It's the same shit we're dealing with now. You have your countries, such as Iran, with clandestine nuclear weapons programs. If you outlaw nuclear weapons, then the only people that will have nuclear weapons are outlaws. The second we get rid of our arsenal, somebody is going to come over here and sucker punch us. I'm sick of this "Well, if more countries like us, then they won't want to come over here and destroy us anymore!" rhetoric.

We didn't get our image of being the most badass country on this planet by going out and kissing people's asses. We got it by wielding the biggest fucking stick around. I'm not saying we need to go out and start a bunch of fights for no reason, but we don't need to sit back and be a bunch of apologists either.

They were also given a chance to surrender - TWICE. And failed to do so.

[Tiger Wench]

Yeah, I am about to say it - HILLARY CLINTON would have been a better President that this liberal apologist fucktard we have now.  I have never been so desperate to see someone get the fuck out of the White House. 

[JR4AU]

We should have put them all in bondage, made them build our cars, and turned the whole fucking island in to a fishing resort with with whore houses.