8.　新聞の投稿記事

                            先日、ミネソタ州Duluthで行われたポール・チベッツのサイン会に対して抗議の集まりを計画してくれたジョエル。

                            彼は若いのに、本当に真面目に平和活動に取り組んでいて、時々イエス様かと思うくらい。（風貌も。）

                            その彼は、よく新聞に投稿するのだけど、その中の１つを転載してみたい。英文のみですが・・・。

   U.S. must renounce its terrorist tendencies

                     The truth of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is clouded by one-sided revisionist history.

                               Many people believe that the use of the bomb was necessary to end the war with Japan and saved millions of

                            lives. Many people believe that this first use of atomic weapons against people was morally defensible.

                                Where do these ideas come from? Certainly not from reading Dwight Eisenhower's memories, in which he

                            states that "...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." And

                            not from William Leahy, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said, "the use of this barbarous weapon

                            at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war...In being the first one to use it, we adopted

                            an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages." And not from reading a 1946 report from the

                            U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, which concluded: "Certainly prior to 31 December '45 and in all probability prior to

                            1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia

                            had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."

                               It may be difficult to acccept that the bombings were part of a larger U.S. goal of asserting military dominance

                            over the USSR. It may be difficult to believe that the U.S. government would vaporize hundreds of thousands of people

                            and poison millions more for the purpose of instilling fear in our global competitors.

                               If we do, we name the U.S. government as one of the largest terrorist organizations on the planet.

                               The United States must come to terms with its own terrorist tendencies and begin to disarm. This world can

                            no longer afford its blind patriotism and military lies.

                                                                                                                                                           Joel Kilgour, Duluth