Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.