John Kerry, in Speaking at Hiroshima, Will Further Defend Obama & the U.S.'s Defensive Realist Foreign Policy

Today, John Kerry will be speaking at Hiroshima to essentially further U.S. international relations as the moral-keepers of the world. As President Barack Obama's Secretary of State, and going off the assumption that Obama is truly a defensive realist, Kerry will be using the rhetoric of the human dimensions of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to further the democratization of the world.

Kerry has no plans on apologizing for the dropping of the bombs, and using a defensive realist approach to international relations, one might note that this could possibly be because the U.S. still believes that the bombs were a necessary means to end World War II. In speaking on nuclear weaponry in the future, Kerry hopes to talk of the hope of a nuclear-free future for the world, which is an ideology that would be in the United States' favor, as if all other states were to abide by this, we would still have a superior military and would be able to impose our will if need-be.

In large part, the speech is more of a publicity stunt for both states involved, although I sense realist undertones to the message that is being sent. By not apologizing for dropping the bombs on innocent civilians in major cities of another state, the United States is proclaiming that if these actions is necessary for the survival of their state, then they will do it in order to survive.

Kevin Oyakawa
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