The USA carried out a terrorist attack 80 years ago today.

Okay, the title may be a little misleading. The USA has been the world's #1 terrorist state since July 4, 1776. Hell, before that even. More like since 1492 when Columbus first came to this continent. But they never committed any terrorist acts with WMDs until 80 years ago today when the Enola Gay flown by war criminal Paul Tibbits and dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing at least 70,000 innocent people who had nothing to do with the war, mostly civilians, especially women and children. And of course, tens of thousands more died from injuries and radiation poisoning. Explain to me how killing babies helps win a war? And of course, three days later, the US did it's own version of the second plane hitting the other tower when they nuked Nagasaki, killing at least another 40,000 instantly. There was no need for the bombings to happen. Japan knew they were going to lose the war. In addition, the Russians planned to attack Japan in Manchuria the day of Hiroshima's destruction. Even the Emperor knew they were done as did several higher ups within the Japanese government. I find it hypocritical of the United States to tell other nations they cannot have weapons of mass destruction when we have more than any other country on Earth and are the only country to ever have used them in war. The truth is, the bombings were completely meaningless and they were only a show of force to the rest of the world, especially Joseph Stalin. As George H.W. Bush blunty pointed out when the Cold War ended in 1991, "The world will know that we say goes". 

Of course, as horrific and evil as the atomic bombings were, let's not forget that just months before that, the US carried out firebombing raids on Japanese cities, which killed as many as 900,000 innocent civilians. The firebombing of Tokyo alone on March 9-10, 1945 killed more than 100,000 people and left more than a million people homeless. And this was intentional. Curtis LeMay, ordered a mock Japanese village built at was called the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah simply to perfect the use of incendiary bombing tactics. After the houses, which were wood and paper were burned down, they were rebuilt again and again with direct intention of incinerating innocent people alive. The only German cities that suffered a similar fate were Hamburg and especially Dresden, which was compared to the atomic bombings of Japan. Oh, and Curtis LeMay was the running mate of segregationist George Wallace in his failed 1968 campaign for president. 

While I am not going to excuse the actions committed by the Japanese and German militaries during World War II, there is no defending the murder of innocent women and children just so America can send the message that "We will rule the world, whether you like it or not". The US should apologize for the atomic bombings. I feel like there can not be true peace with Japan until we do.