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OldSalt posted:
Mr. Hooberbloob posted:

The crux of his speech was we were wrong for dropping the bomb.  The fact that he states we had a "moral awakening" after the bomb dropped supports that staetment.  I'm pretty sure we've been in a moral decline since that moment.

Sometimes the word "sorry" doesn't have to be said to say "I'm sorry". 

 

I don't agree with your interpretation of his speech.  In my opinion, when he said, "That is a future we can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare, but as the start of our own moral awakening." he was not talking of only the United States, but the entire world - the entire human race. 

But, I may be wrong.

I want to thank you, Hoob, for forcing me to reevaluate my thinking on this matter.  I still don't think he apologized, but he was flat wrong about any "moral awakening" within humanity or the United States, whichever interpretation you agree with.  Just look at the world around us as we can see there has been no moral awakening.  We (humanity) are still driven by the same greed, the quest for power, and nationalistic fervor.


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