Click on the
link below and listen to the video of Obama's speech at Hiroshima. He is the first sitting US president to have
gone where the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan 70 years ago by the
United States that ended WWII.
The speech
is delivered as only the eloquent Obama can deliver it. It brings tears to my eyes and strikes a spear to my
empathetic heart. In that one city alone,
on a crystal clear blue sky morning, 140,000 human beings disintegrated and
their entire city destroyed. All should
see the president and listen to him as he tries to make sense of the
senseless. His speech is NOT a moral
indictment of this nation as the only nation to have dropped an atomic bomb for
that analysis of policy should be left to historians to judge its efficacy. It is also NOT an apology to the Japanese
people as his Republican opposition would want us to believe it is. It is, however, a reckoning of the ultimate
destructive capacity man now possesses.
Man has the existential ability to eradicate himself, all he has created
and indeed the very earth itself. The
president’s speech is one of realistic understanding of not only the technologically
possible outcome of war but a warning that nuclear war must never happen.
War spans
the civilizations of man since the beginning of time but the weapons of war,
through time, have advanced. Weapons now
are not merely spears made out of flint but sophisticated complex bombs that
harness the atomic stuff of life itself that can eradicate all life on earth. The president warns and speaks of man’s
ability and, indeed, his necessity to never allow the catastrophic consequences
of nuclear war to happen. Hiroshima shows
us it can and why it must not.
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