Mac-7
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MacArthur was a general not a diplomatAmerican military commanders of that time recognized the unnecessary, immoral nature of the weapon that truman used to slaughter civilians just as fdr wanted. MacArthur informed fdr in significant detail before the Yalta Conference that overtures to surrender were being proffered, but fdr ordered him to ignore them. This is well before Okinawa. The scumbag fdr wanted blood and he would have it; American as well as Japanese.there are plenty of historians who disagree with the ones you offerHind sight is 20/20 but one wonders if we could have avoided the battle of Iwo Jima which was just a few months before. We lost thousands of men there.I would not go that farWe were perfectly right in nuking Nagasaki...my only regret is that we didn’t dust Tokyo on the way back.
the japs were not bad people underneath the bushido bs and I’m glad we didnt kill more than we had to
We could have avoided that battle, but fdr didn’t want to.
Bullshit.Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent | Origins
Almost six decades after the fact, the 1945 unleashing of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to be the subject of impassioned debate. Every year the bombing anniversary — which falls on August 6 — occasions heated exchanges between those who question the atomic bombing and those who...origins.osu.edu
and a good general too in my opinion
but planning for the biggest invasion in history was still going on up until the japanese surrendered
and that didnt come till after the bombs were dropped