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DH, that was my thought – ie SF giants would be overkill

“By bxgrl on December 3, 2010 2:36 PM – Bravo Truman- hmmm. You think he could have detonated those bombs on military installations instead?”

I have no idea. A lot of people have a lot of theories about how they would have made better decisions than the U.S. President and his advisors.

But the facts are pretty stark here. The war ended almost immediately. Clearly what we did had the desired effect. Could we have gotten the same outcome with less horror? Who knows. The fact is, what we did worked.

I’m delighted to be saying what we did worked and to speculate as to whether we might have ridden closer to the line and still gotten the same result. Thank God we’re not saying what we did wasn’t enough and speculating about how much more severe we would have to have been to end the war immediately.

Decision makers should not be held to a standard of perfect decision making. They should be held to a standard of making defensible judgments and getting the right results.

“Lech, “giants game”???? you talking about my G-Men or those san fran baseball?”

dropping a gay bomb on a stadium in SF would be overkill.

“The Japanese started it, and frankly I don’t give a damn how many Japanese civilians had to die to keep even a single additional U.S. soldier from dying.”

game, set, match.