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No Apologies For Hiroshima or Nagasaki
Townhall.com ^ | August 8, 2015 | John Hawkins

Posted on 08/08/2015 4:27:51 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Alberta's Child

It’s one thing to plead military necessity. It’s one thing to say, “Under the contingent circumstances of 8/5/45, I would have done the same”.

It’s quite another to say that dropping a nuclear weapon, twice, on civilian populations was pleasing to Almighty God, or that we should thank Him for the bomb, or that the women, children, and Christian missionaries at Nagasaki deserved it, and so on and so on.

And the reciprocal - if all those innocents DESERVED it, what do WE deserve - is very concerning.


61 posted on 08/08/2015 6:42:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You walk into the room like a camel and then you frown)
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To: Kaslin

F them. They were the bad guys and got their asses kicked proper
Any student of the war in the Pacific will tell you that the bomb was the most humane way to put an end to the war with Japan that they started.


62 posted on 08/08/2015 6:44:34 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: Kaslin

So long as they deny their war crimes especially Nanking, China.


63 posted on 08/08/2015 6:44:49 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: palmer
We eradicated that culture and the world is a better place.

If they could look ahead 70 years and see what this nation has become, I wonder how many Americans who fought in World War II would have considered it a worthwhile military campaign.

What's going to happen after our culture is (justifiably) eradicated?

64 posted on 08/08/2015 6:45:08 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Kaslin
Given Obama's background in Chicago politics, he KNOWS that respect is a byproduct of fear.

There was a time when our enemies feared us.

Obama has intentionally emasculated the American persona on the world stage, inviting every manner of adventurism against America.

If we actually elect a man President who has the spine to make America great once more, someone (probably North Korea) is going to make a misstep and have their head handed to them.

65 posted on 08/08/2015 6:46:54 AM PDT by jimbug
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To: ronnie raygun

There seems to be a steady drip drip drip of posts on Facebook trying to elicit white guilt. All are unattributed and some are easily refuted. Two days ago one was posted claiming that white Christian Europeans had committed genocide against the “indigenous” peoples and slaughtered 100 million. I checked. In all the western hemisphere when Columbus landed the estimate is that there were between 50-100 million people in the new world. I had a long debate with the woman who had shared it. She had a pretty conservative wall. She couldn’t support her position so she banned me whatever that means. I guess Facebook now has me on their list. Sigh. I just want to see the cute cat videos and my great nephews pix.


66 posted on 08/08/2015 6:47:16 AM PDT by Mercat (I will only vote prolife)
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To: central_va
You wouldn’t believe the BS that is taught in Jap schools about WWII. Total propaganda. Most Japs don’t even know about Pearl Harbor.

I have heard that some American school kids believe that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, in retaliation for the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's pretty sick too.

67 posted on 08/08/2015 6:47:17 AM PDT by Mark17 (How could anyone suspend himself upon a cross and die for me, die willingly, to set us free.)
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To: MissionaryRidge
Reading and parsing your comment, I've concluded you left 'but' out of your statement about Pearl Harbor.

"But Pearl Harbor was a naval base."

In a way, I believe that's Freudian...

68 posted on 08/08/2015 6:49:28 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Mark17
I have heard that some American school kids believe that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, in retaliation for the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

That's not because this is what they were taught. It's because most American school kids are dumb as bags of rocks.

69 posted on 08/08/2015 6:53:50 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Kaslin

Japan brought this on themselves when they bombed Pearl Harbor... No American should feel guilty about ending the war early against Japan - saving thousands of lives on all sides.


70 posted on 08/08/2015 6:55:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (If gang bangers paid a police chief $400,000 to give 'a speech' everyone would know it was a bribe.)
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To: central_va

You mean, they’re as stupid as our publically schooled students?


71 posted on 08/08/2015 7:01:26 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Kaslin; All

What do you think Truman and the leaders back then would have done had they been in charge when Muslims attacked the United States and murdered almost 3,000 innocent Americans? on 9/11?


72 posted on 08/08/2015 7:04:07 AM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (giasrl type))
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To: patriot08

Nuked Kandahar.


73 posted on 08/08/2015 7:05:32 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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To: fatnotlazy

The high death toll in the battle of Okinawa is what made his decision. I believe the only other battle in history where there was more loss of American lives was Gettysburg


74 posted on 08/08/2015 7:10:03 AM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Alberta's Child

Japan surrendered because they believed that we would keep nuking them until they did.


75 posted on 08/08/2015 7:18:26 AM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Kaslin
During the conventional Allied bombing raids of German and Japanese major cities, one hundred thousand or more civilians were killed during single raids.

Yet the whiners make a big deal out of the a-blasts even though the death tolls between those and the conventional raids were roughly equal. Why do they not shed as many tears for the enemy civilians killed in the non a-bomb blasts? They ended up just as dead. Selective outrage.

And as Hawkins points out the Japanese murdered many millions of enemy civilians...much of the killings just for the heck of it. It's difficult to feel too sorry for the dead Japanese civilians when you read accounts of the slaughter of the Chinese, Filipino, and other civilians by the sons of Nippon.

76 posted on 08/08/2015 7:23:44 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Alberta's Child
What was the military value of killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians?

The same as the military value of killing hundreds of thousands of German civilians; among other things, it kept them from getting up in the morning and going to work making weapons that would be used to kill our soldiers.

That, and it provided a powerful example that their existing course of action would lead only to more death and destruction.

77 posted on 08/08/2015 7:27:49 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Alberta's Child
What's going to happen after our culture is (justifiably) eradicated?

Predictions are difficult but my best guess is Sharia law. Along the way there we might have some sort of multicultural free-for-all. I don't think anyone will nuke us but I could be wrong.

78 posted on 08/08/2015 7:33:43 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: Kaslin

They just sentenced a truck driver to 16 years in prison in La Crosse Wi. (close to where I live) for smashing into another car on I-90 while checking his Facebook page and killing a person in the car. The truck driver was going 55 mph when he crashed into the car ahead of him that was moving slowly due to heavy traffic.


79 posted on 08/08/2015 7:34:01 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Sorry about post 79...wrong thread.


80 posted on 08/08/2015 7:34:58 AM PDT by driftless2
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