Posted on 05/04/2024 7:00:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
You damned right it was evil. War is evil. If we have more evil in war we have less war.
To be clear, the article was prompted by a Tucker Carlson quote on Joe Rogan-
“My ‘side’ has spent the last 80 years defending the dropping of nuclear bombs on civilians… like, are you joking? If you find yourself arguing that it’s a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil.”
Truman explained to the Japanese armies in China that there would be nothing to come home too if they fought on
Saved Japan from Soviet occupation in the North.
The bomb code names were Little Boy and Fat Man, not Fat Boy.
I was 13 when it happened……my neighborhood was delighted…..the adults all had was fatigue .
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Was Japan evil to attack Pearl Harbor?
It’s called “war”, not “pillow fight”!
Tucker Carlson has morphed into a self-important twit.
You’re 92 years old?
I may be mistaken, but I think it was “Tall Boy” and “Fat Man”.
Are there areas in Hiro or Nagi that are still emitting dangerous levels of radiation?
Oops…..war fatigue .
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My Grandfather would have had to invade Japan. This is jumping the shark.
Was it evil to end the war? Only if you’re a war monger
Evil compared to what? The Bataan Death March? Nanking? Unit 731? Conditions in any Japanese POW camp? Do the Japanese want to hear more? No, they deny most of it to this day but many try to make us look like the bad guys for dropping the big ones (at the time). Well, that’s war and they started it.
Next stupid question that has been asked and answered on FR every year for the past 25 years?
Considering it took TWO nukes to even get the Japanese leadership to consider surrendering, and the vote was evenly split with the Emperor casting the deciding vote to surrender, yes, they were necessary and no, it’s not evil.
If the leadership were that unwilling to give in, the war would have been far more bloody and horrific than it was. The reports of how the Japanese treated prisoners and those they conquered are chilling.
Besides, the US did not randomly bomb strictly civilian targets. Both cities were military targets in spite of the fact that civilians lived there, too.
I cannot imagine taking Japan.
The Soviets would have taken at least half. Then you got yourself a civil war, like Korea.
iT`S A dum dum dum stupoid question......They wuz warned before and after Nagasaki to surrender or they wuz gonna be blasted. They wuz stupid Japanese leaders. Even cops do it;”Stop or I`ll shoot!” Doolittle shoulda blasted the Impeerial Palce to bits ..chop off the head of the snake then they wouldn`t have anythung to die for...more stupid people...it woulda saved as lot of lives-— the Allies even wanted to try Hurohito for war crimes but desisted...Hirohuiti was in on everythung,, including oplanning military operations—they shoulda dropped the abomb on the palace-—he was as guilty as H.. ask the Chinese and Phipiinos if Abomb a was a good thing.. . just ask them.. there are the ones that the japanese systemativcally brutally tortured and killed..whole families in the streets of Manila... My friend wuz on the death March...when Japanese warships picked up downed American pilots they would tie concrete blocks around their ankles and thriw them overboard... UYep A-bmb the cap outa ten vbatsrads!!
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