Will Obama Apologize for Hiroshima?

Published August 12, 2009 4:29pm ET



A knotty question — he’s due to visit the blast site come November and loves to say “I’m sorry.” On the other hand, the twin Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings served as a legitimate conclusion to a war that Japan initiated — with a recent poll showing that 61% of Americans support Truman’s decision to employ the atomic arsenal, an approval rating that soars in the Greatest Generation demographic. Though Obama groveling at ground-zero would undoubtedly draw the ire of most Americans above the age of 65, one WWII vet in particular — Morris Jepson one of the two surviving members of the Enola Gay and the man who armed the “Little Boy” bomb — pulls no punches on The One’s apology-saturated foreign policy. Check out his interview with Japan’s Mainichi Daily News:

Mainichi: If you have a chance to meet Obama, would you advise him not to go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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