To the editor:

Because of the president’s “moral equivalency” kowtowing at the Hiroshima monument, he has grossly and profoundly insulted every American World War II veteran, their families and the peoples the Japanese Empire conquered.

Ask the Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos and others conquered and occupied by the savagely barbarian Japanese Empire about it. Ask them about a moral equivalence between their conquerors and America. “All war deaths are bad.” No. Deaths caused by the rampaging Japanese were far worse. The uncivilized cruelty of the fanatical Japanese warlords, army and navy is almost beyond imagining. The only evidence anyone needs of that truth is the atomic bomb monument in Nagasaki the president could also have visited. One atomic bomb did not stop the barbarous fanatics of Japan. It took two.

I only hope the president’s insulting behavior was from ignorance. However, as he has repeatedly demonstrated, I suspect that it was the willful blindness of an ideologue who believes that America deserves anything bad that happens to her. And, therefore, I also imagine this is not his last stop on his eight-year “Apology for America Tour.”