Was Hiroshima Wrong?

[bodecea]

Three days is all we gave them

No additional evidence of our new found power was provided by Nagasaki. If the Emperor was in a power struggle with the Army wouldn't more time been of assistance. We still had the second bomb....we could have dropped it any time

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The outcome would have been the same but we could have saved 75,000 cicilians

Do some reading. The Emperor REFUSED to intervene after the first bomb. He only acted after the second. He also knew about the coming winter and the military plans for suicide attacks.

obama worshippers don't understand.

Was that necessary?

 

[SW2SILVER]

It's OK to demonize war. The Japanese have a shrine in Hiroshima. Who wants nuclear war? Who wants a total war? But, lets don’t forget. Japan was eager for war, they started the war in the pacific. Please, they would have fought on like those poor saps in Okinawa. Ever see the films of women throwing their babies off the cliff then jumping in after? THAT is what would have happened all through Japan if we had invaded instead using the two nukes we had. Don’t kid yourselves, they made this this issue it became. We didn’t thirst for blood it is made to seem. They could have surrendered years earlier. What DID they fight for? All they wanted to do was subjugate and dominate. All WE wanted to do was stop THEM. Hiroshima was wrong, so was EVERYTHING the Japanese did after 1937. They invaded China, they killed countless innocent civilians doing what Hitler did in northern Europe. Don't defend that. Don't pretend the Japanese are innocent victims here. They have plenty to answer for. They have August 6, we have December 7th.

 

[Lokiate]

And Nagasaki? How many non-combatants were knowingly slaughtered in order to terrorize the government of Japan into granting our demands?

Fuck no, we bombed the shit out of them, and nuked their asses twice because their ideology did not allow for surrender. Even knowing that they would lose the war, they went through with bombing Pearl Harbor because they were, at that time, a warrior culture. Two atomic weapons was merciful compared to the alternative choice we faced at that time.

 

[Sky Dancer]

Yes. Hiroshima was wrong.

 

[Lokiate]

If we didn't drop atomic ordnance on them, we would have had to invade, leading to a war of attrition, simply because they still had the Bushido code instilled in their soldiers, and pride in nation and culture in the citizenry. The loss of life would have been catastrophic to the point that Japan would have just been a paragraph in history books by now, and the loss of Soldiers and Marines would have been unacceptable. I respect that resolve, that will to fight to the last man. It's awe striking, but stupid at the same time, simply because their peoples well being was placed secondary to the desire for military victory. The Japanese would rather have gone extinct, than face failure at the hands of the gaijin, and that is wrong in my opinion. As a Soldier, I believe the People come first, you guys are why we exist, and the stance taken by the Japanese military was detrimental to the well being and future of the Japanese. That was the difference between us and them.