Memorial Diplomacy

Today is the anniversary of the glorious victory at Nagasaki, which followed the glorious victory at Hiroshima because the Truman administration was not minded to accept Japan's surrender until the USA had tried out both its toys. Hostilities closed within a week of the bombing, thereby ending nearly half a century of Japan behaving as if it had the same rights in Asia as a white colonial power, and paving the way for subsequent decades of American benevolence in Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia with the redeeming assistance of Japanese war criminals. As befits this noble history, today's annual commemoration at Nagasaki will not be attended by the ambassador from the country that carried out the experiment, or those of several of its client states, because Israel has not been invited. It is feared, no doubt justifiably, that there could be misleading comparisons with the Righteous State's co-non-invitees Russia and Belarus, which have inflicted far fewer casualties and have not attempted to set off a regional conflagration.