Posted on 08/06/2014 8:24:20 AM PDT by Retain Mike
Little is also said about the casualties the Japanese were inflicting upon the Chinese on the mainland. Iirc they were killing upwards of 250,000 a month.
To say nothing of what would have happened to those Japanese soldiers when the Soviets would have come crashing down upon them from the North.
Look at what happened to the populations of Europe following the loss of a generation of men in WWI. Consider that the impact of continued war would have been worse regarding Japanese males.
The bombs not only saved a large number of American lives, and an enormous number of Chinese lives. They also saved Japan as a nation and as a people.
I think it was a matter of doing one horrible thing to prevent a much more horrible thing. I don’t believe that anyone involved took it lightly. People who let their emotions overrule logic just can’t accept that.
>They also saved Japan as a nation and as a people.<
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That was of least concern to those who survived a stay in a Japanese concentration camp.
I remember my mother asking: “Why only two bombs?”
Of course she did not know that there was no other one to drop.
Until October.
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