July 2: My tragedy.

Today, I spent at least 6 hours writing this blog. Then, in some accident I don't understand, I lost it all. I've done that before - but this time I just don't have it in me to do it all over again. Yes, I am seriously retarded as a computer user.

But I'll just redo this bit. 

We'll never know how many were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We'll never know because no American government ever has or ever will tell us what it knows about that attack. The statements we get  have always emphasized the power of the explosion, with no sense of it's human impact.

Hiroshima were almost certainly, the greatest mass murder in history. It was probably also the greatest murder of innocent civilians in just two attacks in history.

Well, of course it was. But you'll notice that most accounts of the attack stress the power of the bombs - not the impact on the people.

The US, like Britain, has a long history of murdering innocent civilians. When it attacked the Philippines in 1900, it killed at least 3 million - with no distinctions between men, women, children. It  had just finished the mass murder of its native peoples - men, women, children, babies.  Then Churchill picked up this mass murder of civilians in the 1920s, sending the RAF to bomb undefended Kurd villages. (There were no soldiers to defend them.)

Hitler picked it up in bombing civilians in the Spanish civil war. Then, Britain, the U.S. and Canada bombed the German city of Dresden which had almost  no defenses - and few military targets.

From that, the sky was the limit. In the Korean War, the U.S. deliberately bombed civilians and children on a scale never seen before. It followed that with its assaults on Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq.... Women and children were the deliberate targets.

But the nuclear bombs really opened the door. And the U.S., for obvious reasons, has never told its people why killing of women and children in those cities was deliberate. Why?

No. It wasn't to force a Japanese surrender and save American lives. There was no doubt about it. The surrender was  coming very, very soon. Japan knew it. The U.S. knew it.  So why that massive destruction?

It was because the Japanese were in deep trouble in China. Russian troops, freed from the German war, were ready to move on China, the great and profitable source of British wealth. But U.S. billionaires wanted Britain's China. That - and not Pearl Harbour -  is why the U.S. got into the Pacific war in the first place.  

How to speed up the surrender?  - a massive killing of Japanese civilians (in two cities that had no military clout)

And ever since then, the U.S. has been vague about the butcher's bill for those two targets - and it never, never mentions the women and children who died there.

Could the same thing happen to Iran? Almost certainly. For all it's size and military power, the U.S. has not distinguished itself in war since 1945. (One thinks here of Vietnam and Afghanistan.)  And Iran could well be a tough target.