Posted on 08/08/2015 4:27:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
We have war plans to invade Canada in the Pentagon today, unless our General Staff is completely incompetent.
We were simply not in a state of war with Japan before Pearl Harbor. And yes, I know who Chennault and the Flying Tigers are.
Needless to say we were not looking for certainty of the results. There were other alternatives and all of them were worse.
How about indiscriminate destruction of civilian populations in massive bombing campaigns?
Under the circumstances, the use of two atomic bombs was morally sound. The alternative (your alternative) is stalemate and a militarized Japan that remains a threat until they develop nuclear weapons. Then, if we are lucky, a Cold War in which we hope Japan does not ally with the Soviets.
First of all, you take a major event that played out over the course of years and present it as if history had reached a point where there were only two possible scenarios. That's a ludicrous approach that treats every human interaction (or interaction between nations) as nothing more than a coin flip.
Secondly, how could there possibly be a diplomatic or moral objection to a strong relationship between Japan and the Soviet Union at that time? The U.S. had no qualms about maintaining friendly relations with the Soviets in the 1940s -- even to the point of selling out Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union at Yalta in 1944?
Hawkins says it well here. As honest & straight forward as it should be said.
My father and uncle were USMC in the Pacific. The bomb is probably why I and my brothers and our cousins had a chance to be born.
I am sick of this never ending Orwellian war on the truth. The evil aggressor as the innocent victim. I back down to no one on the decision to use nukes on Japan.
Because of that f**king John Dewey, no doubt.
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