Thread: USA cartoon

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Originally Posted by SinglerM

**Objectivity remains to be seen. I am curious where this was originally published.
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I was talking about the kid in the cartoon; someone with (presumably) no knowledge of the bombings in Japan. Through his eyes, it was simply a premeditated attack which resulted in an enormous loss of civilan lives.

**The cartoon makes a statement to the effect that America is a terrorist organization. It ignores the fact that the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Government of the day, resulted in us being at war with them. I am not a historian, but I don't believe it's accurate to portray the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as two single attacks by us. To frame everything properly, you would have to acknowledge the events leading up to it, starting with Pearl Harbor. These events are related. I do not know what information America's leaders had available to them at at time. Nor do I presume to know what information the Japanese leadership of the day had available to them either. Perhaps the Japanese felt that Pearl Harbor was a preemptive attack. It's possible they acted on intelligence of some sort.
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Regards,
Mitch

By that rationale, every political cartoon would have to be prefaced by a detailed, written history on whatever topic it addressed. The events that preceded the bombings are inconsequential - the reader doesn't need a play by play of who hit who first. Radical muslims who hate the US and fly planes into buildings obviously feel they too have been wronged and that their actions are justified - but do you want them to list exactly how? Of course not.

Everyone knows that at this point in history, it was a war time situation. The author obivously isn't stating that America is a terrorist organization as you suggest, but simply noting a highly controversial attack not on a military base, as was the case with Pearl Harbor, but on cities, which turned thousands upon thousands of civilians into charcoal. So forget that there was a war going on and that the powers at be dropped those bombs to bring a speedy end to the war -- a not-so-subtle hint that the rest of the island could be wiped off the map just as easily. As I already pointed out, the people who carried out the attacks on 9/11 obviously had their reasons too, since they were willing to die in the act, but I'm sure their motives don't matter to you. They're simply terrorists.

That's the point this cartoon is making: it wants you to ignore what inspires any "terrorist" attack and look at the event for what it caused -- a lot of dead innocent people.

By the way, if you click the "quote" button beneath someone's post, you can manipulate what they've typed in the reply box without having to type asterisks.