FROM VICTORY

August 1, 1945
Pres. Truman: We have an A Bomb, the most devastating weapon ever built. I will blow one up on a Pacific atoll, if you wish to see its power. Do you wish to see it?
Emperor Hirohito: No.

August 6, 1945 "Little Boy" A-Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 140,000 dead

August 7, 1945
Pres. Truman: Do you surrender?
Emperor Hirohito: No

August 9, 1945 "Fat Man" A-Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 80,000 dead

August 10, 1945
Pres. Truman: Do you surrender?
Emperor Hirohito: Yes, provided...
Pres. Truman: No provideds. Do you unconditionally surrender?
Emperor Hirohito: Yes.

April 6, 2010
Pres. Obama: We will not use a nuclear weapon in our defense against a country that does not have a nuclear weapon, even if it engages in chemical or biological warfare against us. We shall respond to such warfare (after thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of our people have been killed) with traditional warfare (provided, of course, we will not drop any bomb if there is a civilian in the neighborhood).

WHEN AND WHY DID AMERICA LOSE ITS BACKBONE, ITS GRIT, ITS WILL?

A confluence of events within 25 years after America's victory in WW II, set the stage:

1. The leaders of the victorious Allied forces...including Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin ...died
2. The United States found itself in a war in Vietnam that it did not wish to be in, did not know how to win, and after a decade of fighting it with one hand tied behind its back, left in defeat
3. The baby boomers born after WWII reached maturity...and 400,000 of them congregated at a rock and roll festival in Woodstock, NY wallowing in mind bending drugs and alcohol and wanton sex under the banner "Peace and Love".

What was critical about that slogan was that it was freewheeling and unprincipled. All standards were trashed. We were urged to be at peace with everyone and anyone regardless of their moral qualities ...and we were implored to love everyone and anyone regardless of their beliefs, attitudes, actions. The slogan explicitly evolved into "Make Love (Sex) not War"..and the moral principles that had fueled our country to unprecedented heights crumbled.

The extent of the crumbling is evident in five subsequent events which originated in the White House:

1. Watergate: the criminal break-in of the Democratic headquarters, orchestrated by or done with the approval of Pres. Nixon...and his subsequent shameful resignation
2. The Lewinski Affair: the adulterous sexual relations by Pres. Clinton in the Oval Office, demeaning both himself and his office, and his lying about it to the Senate Committee
3. The failure on the part of Pres. Bush Sr. to pursue Saddam Hussein into Baghdad during the First Gulf War
4. The failure of Pres. Clinton to order the bombing of the cave in Afghanistan in which Bin Laden was trapped, allowing the terrorist leader to escape
5. The apparent deception by Pres. Bush Jr. with regard to wmd's in Iraq for the purpose of gaining public support for the Second Gulf War.

We are now an unprincipled nation with no standards of morality or decency. The Constitution is treated by many as an out of date relic expressing ideals that no longer apply. Pres. Obama meets with and is willing to deal with rogue nations as if they are trustworthy and honorable, completely ignoring their announced political objectives. He disgracefully bows in deference to tyrannical leaders...including the King of Saudi Arabia and the President of China. He does not see money as a reward of production but as an entitlement, and has moved to forcibly redistribute our nation's wealth. He does not take pride in America's preeminence in the world, he disdains it.

America stood very tall
America had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
( )could ( )couldn't put America together again