Even memory is not fair. Historic Obama’s visit to Hiroshima – Politics

After 71 years since the atomic bombings of Japan, the US president visited the museum-memorial in Hiroshima. Although not expressly made words regret for the decision of his predecessor, President Harry Truman to use the bomb, it is generally condemned all wars, to mention the untold suffering that people carry.

A brief, lasting only a few minutes visit, however, it was undoubtedly a historical character, which emphasized the Japanese themselves. Official published in Hiroshima, “Chugoku Shimbun,” he wrote about overcoming hatred for enemies. He stressed that “the dignity of the city does not allow the reply hate these inhuman bombing” and the secretary-general of the national association of victims of the atomic bomb, Terumi Tanaka, wrote that it was the abandonment of nuclear weapons will be a real tribute that the world may submit to the victims.

already in the 60s the former US president Dwight Eisenhower in a press interview estimated that in the summer of 1945. Japan trying to surrender without losing face, and dropping this monstrous weapon was not necessary. But few think is known – and even with today’s occasion niewspominany – rebellion parts hardliners Japanese military, who in the summer of 1945. Tried to remove and even kill the government and continue the war.

There is no doubt that in legal terms the bombing of the city and all attacks on civilian targets is a war crime. But this is ahistorical thinking.

When I spoke to eyewitnesses of that war, I have not met anyone who does not admit that in 1945. Any attack on the Germans and their allies they were justified. In addition, very beautiful it is the call for the renunciation of nuclear weapons and indeed President Obama seriously the appeal was delivered in Prague in 2009. But we should point out that neither Russia, nor China, nor any power nuclear topic has not taken.

Warszawiak this tribute to Hiroshima must also lead to brooding over the fate of our city and our selective approach to history and symbols. The tragedy of Hiroshima and the whole world knows. And in Warsaw, killing no fewer civilian casualties, and the world knows only history enthusiasts. Even memory is not fair.