WOW... its still 9th August for god sake.
statement like that, i find it as offending as "use of brothels prevented local women getting raped".....
Did you read anything else I wrote? Obviously not. That or you seem to lack an understanding of what the word "condemn" means.WOW... its still 9th August for god sake.
statement like that, i find it as offending as "use of brothels prevented local women getting raped".....
Yeah. I want people to put themselves in Harry Truman's shoes. Be given a choice of dropping two bombs that end the war tomorrow, or have it go on for another year or two and keep throwing Americans and Japanese into the meat grinder.Half-n-Half said:It's a question of which is the lesser evil. Would you rather have 170,000 people die, or millions of people die? It is definitely an ugly question and neither is "right", however I will always opt for the lesser evil.
america tested atom bombs on non-military targets. wanted to scare the hell out of japanese? drop it in the middle of the ocean. why use two different types on hiroshima and nagasaki?
America at the time had only two functioning atomic bombs. Actually, there was a debate whether to drop the bomb in the ocean to intimidate the Japanese. Two major problems with this:
1.) What if the atomic bomb hadn't worked? It was a very new technology and therefore could have malfunctioned. This could have sent the wrong message to the Japanese that our technology is fallible and would have just provoked the Japanese.
2.) Even if in fact the bomb did work, what if the Japanese were not intimidated and continued on with the war? You would only have one bomb left to use against the Japanese. Hindsight is 20/20, and looking back Japan didn't surrender after one atomic bomb was used, even when it was dropped on Hiroshima. So what makes you think they would surrender after it being dropped in the middle of the ocean?
It's a question of which is the lesser evil. Would you rather have 170,000 people die, or millions of people die? It is definitely an ugly question and neither is "right", however I will always opt for the lesser evil.
You are lied to by the absolute falsehood for the self-justification of US government at that time.
The truth was that US government had known prior to the atomic bombings that Japanese unconditional surrender was near.
*** Gar Alperovitz, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).
The truth was that the atomic bombings had been conducted mainly for the experimental purpose to assess the destructive capability of the atomic bombs, and the experiment had been conducted on the ground of the racial prejudice.
The truth was that the second bomb on Nagasaki was dropped hurryingly only 3 days after Hiroshima because US was afraid of Japanese surrender before experiment of plutonium bomb.
There is the false theory that the main purpose of the atomic bombings was for intimidating Soviet Union. If that was true, US would drop the bombs on Hokkaido adjacent to Soviet soils.
There exist relations between comfort women and atomic bombings.
You have no right to press for Japanese apology on the comfort women issue until you apologize to Japan for the atomic bombings.
You should not blame others by shelving your own crimes.
US are the far more atrocious nation than Iraq, Iran and North Korea, ceaselessly repeated massacres all over the world.
If you actually believe this than answer this question. Why did they not surrender after the first bomb was droped. If they were so close to surrenduring I would think It would not have taken 2 bombs to get them surrender.
The truth is Bush attacked Iraq because he wants petroleum.
Japan has already been a criminal country but they learnd from past mistakes.USA has already been a criminal country and they still are because they didn't learn from their past mistakes and they're still making war.
Contrary to the astounding economic growth of China, the authoritarian communist party is now facing serious problems, including abysmal corruptions, enormous gap between rich people and poor people, large quantity of riots by poor people, severe environmental destructions, water shortage caused by global warming, recently started out inflation and so on.
We expect the Chinese communist party will be forced to opt military invasion to Taiwan for maintaining their ruling power with averting the frustration of people within several years. A Chinese military cadre warned publicly that they would not hesitate preemptive nuclear attacks against US intervention.
We think Japan will be the next target of Chinese invasion. Now the conservative people of Japan begin to think the necessity of reinforcement of self-defense forces instead of unreliable US nuclear umbrella taking a cue from the comfort women resolution.