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Wars are a symptom of human sickness.

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Wars are a symptom of human sickness.

That's a political statement, albeit, not a very direct one, Neo.

That means that every US prez since WWII is/was sick. Not at all a difficult thing to imagine.

What kind of a sick person would allow the murder, rape and torture of poor people just to let US businesses steal those people's daily bread?

What kind of a sick person would perpetuate the big lie that the US is/was the savior of the oppressed?

No, it means that every human king and cleric since the beginning of history is/was sick, as have been their subjects.

That includes those you seem to champion as 'innocents'.

hawkeye10 wrote:

we were tired of the war, we were going to win it but those damned Japs were going to stretch it out a couple of more years. so we made a choice.

Your post is highly racial and offensive.

To the heart of the matter as to why the Americans dropped the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaka is the realism they wanted to a) test the bomb on live subjects, b) to send a warning to the world do not mess with the US.

To me the reasoning for dropping "Fat Man and Little Boy Bombs" on innocent people is today perplexing. I consider the act of deliberating targeting cities filled with innocent people man's inhumanity to man.

That can never be made right until future generations of Americans make up for it in some way.

Were the Atomic Bombings Necessary?

Japan surrendered with the understanding that the emperor system would be retained.

The US agreed to do what Truman had been advised to do before the bombings: it signaled to the Japanese that they would be allowed to retain the emperor.

The US dropped atomic bombs on a nation that had been largely defeated and some of whose leaders were seeking terms of surrender.

Many World War II era servicemen who were in the Pacific or anticipated being shipped there believed that the bombs saved them from fighting hard battles on the shores of Japan, as had been fought on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. What they did not take into account was that the Japanese were trying to surrender, that the US had broken the Japanese codes and knew they were trying to surrender, and that, had the US accepted their offer, the war could have ended without the use of the atomic bombs.

"The US dropped atomic bombs on a nation that had been largely defeated ...the bombs were unnecessary."

the japs had been told that their surrender had to be unconditional, which they were not willing to do, as proven by the cables. I believe that part of the arguement was that they would not unconditionally surrender until all of the island looked like Dresden, which would have been a slog with lots of them killed, that nuking them might actually save jap lives.