A bit more perspective to the bombings.
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After what they did to the Chinese, they deserved it. The POW tortures, Pearl Harbor, they brought it on themselves.
Very few really know WHY the bomb was dropped:
As the war went on, the allies observed the land grab going on by Stalin in Eastern Europe —would Stalin later LEAVE? A lot of folks had doubts.
The Yalta Agreement required that after the eventual fall of Hitler, Stalin would HAVE to be in on the fall of Japan:
That could mean a land-grab on the Japanese islands, too.
A post-war look at West/East Germany for 50 years, and another look at Korea to this very day shows such fears were warranted.
If the Japanese had not been induced to surrender quickly in a very special way, we would probably have a divided Japan to This Very Day.
The Emperor also would have been executed, with a long insurgency then taking place.
The bomb was dropped to keep Stalin’s grubby hand off of Japan.
The Germans and Japanese used to be the most cruel vicious SOBs on the earth. They both got an attitude adjustment and are now the nicest, most pacifist peoples around. They build things the world loves.
We lost a golden opportunity after 9/11. 10 H-bombs could have changed the world. Medina, Riyadh, Damascus, Tehran, Baghdad, Islamabad, Kabul, and of course three of our largest on Mecca.
I was president, I would order all Americans and foreigners to leave the named cities on the 13th or remain at your own risk. Nationalize all their assets on the 14th. Do it on 9/15. Then continue over here like nothing ever happened.
They would be a much better place today.
The Bomb saved many American lives, to say nothing of the millions of JAPANESE lives it saved.
The Isis of our parents’ generation.
They drew first blood.
Mt father and my father-in-law survived WW2 because of the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan. My view is. if you don't like what war brings to your country then don't start one.
The “cost” pales compared what Japan did to others. Japan got off fairly lightly for what they did.
Did those same Japanese object when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? Did they object when China was invaded, or any of the other countries they mercilessly attacked and killed civilians? They only objected when it hit them.
It ended the WAR.
Because the man who would live.
The Man who would at he Wars end would live to meet/marry the woman who would become my Mom.
You see, that man, I would find out as a teenager was slated to be 1st wave of troops for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.
A bit more perspective to the bombings.
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Dropping the bombs was necessary. Choosing civilian targets versus government or military ones is debatable.
Bombing Pearl Harbor was Japan’s first mistake.
Should have done this to Mecca on 09/12/01.
War is hell
We shouldn’t forget that.
Go in, bring the enemy to their knees and get out.
I can still hear the radio and the neighbors cheering as the local radio station played the sound of a bomb dropping and the explosion all day the day the war finally ended.
Curiously, these two atom bombings — horrible as they were — killed less than the conventional firebombing campaign done by the B-29’s of the 21st Bomber Command, USAAF. On the night of 9-10 March 1945, 334 B-29’s attacked Tokyo with M69 incendiary bombs. The firestorm killed approximately 100,000 people, made another 1,000,000 homeless, and burned 40% of Japan's largest city. By 6 August 1945, the Nagasaki strike, the majority of Japan's large, medium, and small cities had been devastated by fire from the sky. The fire raids killed more people than both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Mr. Booker did not do his homework.
When I think of hell on earth, I don’t think of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, I think of Nanking.
All the Asian people that suffered Japanese occupation hate the Japanese to this very day. I know because I saw it on several occasions when the old war scars were reopened. Victims do not forget the wrongs done by their oppressors.
The U.S. territory of Guam celebrates Liberation Day on the 21st of July every year. The Japanese document declaring Guam a possession of Japan is read, the Stars and Stripes are lowered and replaced by the flag of Japan, and then the American document signifying the liberation of Guam is read and the Rising Sun is lowered and replaced by the stars and Stripes. The suffering the people of Guam suffered under Japanese occupation has been passed down to the new generations. The reason? So it will never happen again.