The media is claiming that Obama's Hiroshima speech isn't an apology. It's much worse than that. It's full of moral equivalence between the US and Imperial Japan. Obscene equivalence like this.
The world war that reached its brutal end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was fought among the wealthiest and most powerful of nations. Their civilizations had given the world great cities and magnificent art, their thinkers had advanced ideas of justice and harmony and truth. And yet, the war grew out of the same base instinct for domination or conquest that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes. An old pattern amplified by new capabilities and without new constraints.
Did the US fight WW2 out of a base instinct for domination? Apparently we did.
Remember when we were bombed at Pearl Harbor because in our base instinct for domination, we decided that maybe Japan shouldn't be killing quite as many people in its Asian war? And then in our base instinct for domination, we conquered Japan and treated it the way the Japanese had treated the Chinese.
None of that happened.
Defenders of Obama will claim that he's referring to Japan and Nazi Germany, but he makes no such exclusions. His topic is the US dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. The entire speech is one long passage of equivalence in which war is bad and every nation who fought in WW2 was doing it out of humanity's destructive impulses.
It's a completely amoral perspective that rejects the sacrifices Americans made to save the world and instead indicts us for them.