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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

No more self-flagellation on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

From The American Thinker:

Now that our annual self-flagellation over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is over, we Americans owe it to ourselves to look back at the wartime events leading up to the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. For 60 years, opponents of President Truman’s decision to use atomic weapons have sustained a steady drum beat of criticism in the unassailable forums of America’s newsrooms and college classrooms. Their second-guessing has led to a gradual erosion of America’s perceived moral superiority over our enemies as well as negative repercussions for our present conflicts on the world stage—much to the delight of our adversaries.

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