The dead deserve the truth.

Perhaps, symbolism is important in politics. President Obama's visit to Hiroshima, which was one of two cities used for experimenting atom bombs in 1945 by the US, was full of hot air and no substance. The US has committed innumerable genocides in Asia, in Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq and now in Syria, but has never apologized for its actions, let alone pay reparations. Instead it imposed economic sanctions on Vietnam for 20 years because it would not help in finding the remains of dead Americans. We cannot expect Obama to be any different. " We must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them," he said (meaning nuclear weapons), although he quickly added:" We may not realize this goal in my lifetime, but persistent effort can roll back the possibility of catastrophe." He probably realized that no one would believe such a huge lie. Even as he was lying to the world, as he has been doing for 8 years, he was ratcheting up tensions with Russia by activating missile defense shields in Romania and Poland. Naturally, Russia has promised to retaliate by targeting missiles at those two countries. Obama has authorized the manufacture of 400 'super-nukes', named B61-12, with output equal to 50,000 tons of TNT, at a cost of $11 billion. At the same time the US is making smaller nuclear weapons, as part of 5 new types of warheads, at a cost of $1 trillion, to be used against targets buried deep underground. Having low yield weapons may reduce the inhibition of using nuclear weapons since they will be seen as 'safe', because of low casualties. But the nation against which these are used may retaliate with conventional nukes, igniting a nuclear tit-for-tat, with catastrophic results. While unnecessarily needling Russia, Obama has signed a nuclear deal with China, a dangerous oligarchy with ambitions of subjugating all of Asia, which will allow China to buy nuclear coolant technology from the US to build quieter submarines. The reason why Obama is so cavalier about nuclear weapons is probably because he has no scruples about killing people, having used drones to kill hundreds of terrorists, along with thousands of innocent civilians. Retired Gen Michael Flynn said," When you drop a bomb from a drone....you are going to cause more damage than you are going to cause good." Regardless, 469,000 names have been included in the list of terrorists, with no chance of presenting a defense or refuting allegations. He has casually admitted that bombing Libya was a mistake, not because over 30,000 people were killed, the majority of them civilians, but because a civil war has been raging ever since, pushing thousands to migrate to Europe. Time will tell whether he has been good for the US, for the rest of he has been a disaster - not only for the thousands he has killed but because of the millions that are going to die. Because of this cold, calculating villain.