Reply #192: The relevance is not if they dropped them (for they did), rather if he..

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made the correct choice in doing such, which is subjective at any rate. The point the thread seems to be debating was it necessary and relevant to the situation or was it more bravado from his chain of command giving him poor views of his choices.

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I would propose that the proper inquiry here is whether President Truman made a morally and politically efficacious decision based on the information available to him at that time.

Following into group think of the people that surrounded him, he seems to have failed to seek out different sources of information into such a monumental decision, one that has changed the whole world. It is a view that revolves around the psychology of someone roaming about a room with loaded gun pointing it at any person that they disagree with.

If people don't like the way other people are dealing with this, maybe they should put the loaded gun down