8/10/2013, 7:09:00 AM · by SeekAndFind · 317 replies
Washington Examiner ^ | 08/10/2013 | Timothy Carney
So how do they explain why Japan didn’t surrender after the first A-bomb?
Don’t believe these quotes anyway.
‘It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing’ --- Why dropping the A-Bombs was wrong
Fully aware of the atomic bomb's destructiveness, Japan also knew that our bomb production capacity was limited and planned on resistance based on deep tunnels and heavily armed forces in reserve. Japan aimed to impose such massive casualties on US invasion forces that a peace would be agreed to on Japanese terms.
The core Japanese terms were the maintenance of the Emperor and the imperial system with no reckoning as to his participation in the war and immense financial benefit from war crimes throughout Asia. Yet, even with that agreed to and Hirohito ready to announce Japan's surrender, the Japanese military attempted a coup to depose him and continue fighting.
As quoted, many US military and civilian leaders correctly saw Japan as defeated but had little understanding of the Japanese warrior code and their military's willingness to continue fighting to the death of themselves and of Japan itself. If not for the use of atomic bombs, the Japanese would have had to be subdued through an extraordinarily destructive invasion.
As it was, the use of atomic bombs on Japan provided a psychological means by which the Japanese could reconcile themselves to defeat. This was anticipated and planned on by Hirohito and his circle.
As US intelligence decrypts revealed, after surrender, Japan began a calculated effort to generate international sympathy by claiming that the A-bomb was a uniquely evil weapon and that Japan was a victim. In effect, critics of the US bombing of Japan are carrying out old Japanese and Soviet propaganda themes against the US.
Truman was a democrat partisan hack IMO in domestic affairs, but I’ll never hold the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki against him.
I had three great uncles who fought those homicidal, suicidal, nihilistic nutjobs all over the Pacific, plus my paternal grandfather was on his way there after the defeat of Germany. Everyone of them, plus their family members were glad the war was over.
The bombing worked, it ended the war, which led to peace and eventually led to our current relationship with Japan.
the United States had sustained over 49,000 casualties including more than 12,500 men killed or missing. Okinawans caught in the fighting suffered greatly, with an estimate as high as 150,000 civilians killed. Of the Japanese defending the island, an estimated 110,000 died.
Keywords here are 'undermines' and 'deeply unorthodox policy arguments and excavations.'
They are literally admitting they thrive on creating contrary argument and throwing up 'excavations' to support their 'arguments.' My only guess is that they are willingly creating the controversies in order to increase their media footprint and thus, their bottom line.
Bullcrap they were useless. Dont care, I’ve read enough on the subject and talked to enough people who were there. It wasn’t useless. It was dam necessary.
Except that it took TWO bombs to convince Japan to surrender and even that barely did the job. The vote to surrender passed by only ONE vote.
If that’s what it took to get them to surrender, then nothing short of annihilation through a long bloody war would have worked.
I heard they were chosen because of they were strategic militarily.
The “bomb” was Made in America, tested in Japan.
Of course to prove their virtue every one of these military experts volunteered to be in the first wave on Japanese D Day right?
This is a pile of lies that were written by liars that hate America and certainly hate America’s middle and lower classes who would have had to storm the Japanese beaches and be killed to prove what wonderful people America’s elite were/are.
My Dad was in the Phillipines and his 2 cousins were on ships headed for the invasion, after fighting for over a year.
I scanned the entire article and didn’t read a single reference to Okinawa, or even Iwo Jima. This is all fake and lies.
Bull$***. THEY attacked us FIRST.
I don’t believe these quotes.
Thousands of American boys fought and lost their lives or were wounded horribly and had their lives totally disrupted for ever by these maniacs and their buddies in Germany snd later Stalin and his successors.
They fought like demons to the death on foreign islands
AND WOULD HAVE FOUGHT HARDER IN JAPAN.
AFTER WHAT THESE SAVAGES DID IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA AND CHINA AND THE PHILLIPINES THEY HAVE NO VALID ARGUMENTS
THERE WERE A LOT OF INCINERATED GERMANS IN DRESDEN AND OTHER CITIES.
THEY HAVE STILL REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE OR APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR ATROCITIES
IF THE BOMBS SAVED AMERICAN LIVES I DON’T CARE IF IMPRESSING THAT OTHER MANIC STALIN WAS AN OBJECTIVE ALSO., I DON’T GIVE A DAMN.
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF REVISIONIST, ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-WESTERN HISTORIANS PUTTING OUT THIS BULLS*** WOKE GARBAGE.
Given the choice of one quick flash of light or months of starvation, brutal torture, disease, over-work in a Japanese prison camp, I’d choose the former ANY day. It was WAY more humane.
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The history of this leftist loon
I see. The guy who orchestrated the fire bombing of Tokyo that killed more than the atomic bombing was a secret anti-American sensative socialist hunny-bunny.
Well that settles it. Time to chuck the Constitution.
Revisionist history.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was needless.
May not have been necessary but great payback for Pearl Harbor and the treat of American POWs.