Posted on 05/04/2024 7:00:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Nope.
Next question.
This is one of my follow-on 12 questions (to the initial 3) to ascertain if the subject is suffering the true pandemic: Stupid.
A wrong answer to any one of the 12 - including this one - is, well, bad.
LeMay had firebombed over 30% of the area of Japanese cities to ash, towns were being shelled from just offshore, and fighters were strafing all targets of opportunity. They would have been ground down completely at some point. If the shock of the bombs was the final straw, so much the better;
Dropping the bombs saved over a million lives — most of them Japanese, but plenty of American lives were saved too. It was a humanitarian act. And, no, I don’t accept the idea that Russia was about the beat Japan for us and make our invasion of the home islands unnecessary.
The bombings were necessary, not horrific.
I mean tokyo was bombed conventionally prior and more than 100000 people died that way.
We dropped 2 (small, now) nukes and they still were not going to surrender.
There are a lot of Americans living today thanks to not having to invade and get a surrender that way. Same with the Japanese.
Yes! It would have been much more humane to fire bomb there cities to ashes. /s
Aw, geez, not this Sh** again.
Yet another dope who insists on a definition of being morally superior means a nation is obligated to commit suicide or least offer endless human sacrifice.
No
Nah
If Nazi Germany successfully developed the bomb before the U.S. they would have used it on the Allies.
Glenn Beck was pretty good when on Fox. Then he lost it on his own.
I was never a fan of Bill O’Reilly. But he never regained his popularity on his own.
Megyn Kelly…she also flaked off Fox.
Is Tucker the next Glenn Beck?
My father was a 17 YO sailor in training for the invasion. I have my selfish reasons for being in favor of the bombs used to end the war.
Rhetorical question…NO
Gee I don’t know...
was Japan evil for expanding what was a regional European conflict into a general worldwide war?
The bomb gave me my wife and children. My late father in law was slated to be among the first to invade the mainland
I may be one of them. My Grandfather was a Marine serving in the Pacific with the 6th Marine Division, and almost certainly would have been with the invasion force.
Many of us seniors remember the Japan of the 30s and 40s. It’s too bad the A-bomb took so long to be developed.
We visited Hiroshima,spending the whole afternoon in Peace Park...the epicenter of the blast...just the two of us. Everyone was Japanese...there were no Caucasian tourists but us.We had positive interactions with a number of loca, as. The only negative comment we heard or saw about the US action was written by a black female congressperson...in a large comment book for “dignitaries Witten many years ago. What a pathetic congressloser.
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