One argument in regard to Donald Trump's possible election as this nation's president is how capable he would be and how his temperament might play out in his role as commander in chief. It seems that more often he is guided by his instinct, by his intuition to make what he would believe to be the right decisions. He would make America great again.
On Aug. 5, 1945, at 7:45 a.m., 71 years ago, when people went to work and students went to school, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 10,000 humans beings, old and young, men, women, mothers, fathers, children. Several days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki destroying the city with thousands of human victims.
It was President Harry S. Truman who made this fateful decision while attending the important Potsdam Conference deliberating European affairs with the allied leaders Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. While attending the conference trying to settle significant European and especially German post-war issues, he kept in touch with the progress developing an atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project. When he was informed that the atomic bomb was ready to be used, he discussed this matter with his secretary of defense, with his secretary of state, with his chief of the general staff, and with General Dwight Eisenhower. In the end, the decision was his as commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces,
President Truman was a rational person making decisions as a rationally thinking person who was considering the interest of the United States within our global responsibilities. When he attended a military ceremony in Berlin when U.S. troops officially assumed control of a sector of the occupied city, he emphasized in an emotional speech that the United States' goal in this war was to bring "peace and prosperity to the world."
Armin Mruck, Reisterstown