This is what won the war- not hiroshoma and nagasaki. That just ended the war.
They got what they deserved... And now we get along.
“blood-red mists”
Total BS. Someone has been watching too many movies.
I was told that the Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Yokohama fire bombing in March 1945 killed more people than the two atomic bombs combined. Japanese people suffered so much because of the few globalist deep state a-holes.I talked to many who lived through it and they didn’t want it. They were just glad when the war was over. I”m sure many Ukes feeling that way now.
I have never believed in bringing a war to innocents.
The dropping of the bomb was carefully watched by the USSR who already had the recipe thanks to Julius and Ethel.
Expensive wars ensued that put America in today’s situation:
drained and broke thanks to the lousy elected looting politicos.
Count the mansions.
For the future increase the term of president to two six-year terms, senators to two Four-year and HR to four two-year terms.
Expenses and salaries for the congress, their staffs and all expenses should be paid out of the respected state’s treasury.
It would solve many problems.
Gee. Who’d a thunk it that bombing Pearl Harbor and the rest of Oahu would have precipitated the bombing of Tokyo?
They started it
The atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives.
If not for the atomic bombs, there would have been much more firebombing.
B-29 crews reported floating debris as high as 20,000 feet over the burning cities. Not everyday you see a screen door floating at 20,000.
Expected, but a LOT of denial in the comments on this one.
It was a horrific war crime. It didn’t get prosecuted because we won.
To deny that point is to deny reality, and engage in stupid justifications.
Setting fire to Hamburg and Dresden, to name just two cities, killed some 60,000 people — without an atomic bomb, compared to which, fire is a safe and effective way to settle arguments.
If only warriors respected the rules of the game — e.g., no nukes — we might have wars with some possibility of survival of life on earth.
I worked years ago with an older woman, Japanese by birth, who had been a young tween/teenager in Tokyo during the firebombing. I don’t recall now how the conversation started and unfolded; I certainly didn’t try to press her for details. But I recall her telling how her mother had sent her out for water the next day. She had to move through streets and across bridges carpeted with the incinerated bodies of victims, and she spoke of crossing small canals and creeks choked with the same.
Her mother and siblings were far enough out that they survived, but still .... I didn’t press her for what had happened to her father and older male relatives who may have been in the Japanese military.
Some years after the war, after she had grown up to marriageable age, she married an American serviceman and ended up emigrating to the U.S., becoming an American citizen, and a great Republican and Reagan supporter. I think her husband may have been career military and that she had spent most of her adult life doing the Army wife thing. She was an American patriot in the way the best of our immigrants have always been. As to the war, it was a catastrophe for Japan and an almost immeasurable tragedy for the Japanese civilians who were caught in it.
Whether she had been raised in the cult of emperor worship, I don’t know, but the military junta that launched Japan’s invasion of China and ultimately led to Pearl Harbor and the blitz across the South Pacific to overrun the European colonies was not in the habit of consulting the people in the rice paddies and factories. Even among the educated Japanese elites, plenty of people knew Japan was making a mistake. Admiral Yamamoto, of course, became the iconic U.S. symbol of the “good Japanese” had who tried to warn the warlords who were drunk on bushido.
Her clincher — and I imagine this was deeply embedded after so many years in the U.S. — is that she knew who started the war. She knew what Japan had done in China. She knew how the Japanese had treated POWs and people in the territories Japan had overrun in the Pacific. Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind is a fearful thing.
Germany at least went through de-Nazification. Japan kept the emperor and has still never made a deep reckoning with its war record. The former U.S.S.R. has never gone through the full immersion depramming either, although the dissident counterculture in Russia was strong enough that a lot of this has happened organically. The worst liars with regard to totalitarianism and the story of communism in the last century are now probably in American universities; Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford and the rest need the equivalent of de-Nazification.
And then there’s the Islamic world, especially the Arab and Middle Eastern parts of it.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”. Well, I guess he was right.
Beautiful. God bless Truman and the American military.
Quote from a WWII veteran overhearing someone say that `You can’t
bomb an ideology.”
“The hell you can’t. Because we did it. These Muslims are no different
than the Imperial Japanese. The Japs had their suicide bombers too.
And we stopped them. What it takes is the resolve and will to use
a level of brutality and violence that your generations can’t
stomach. And until you can, this shit won’t stop. It took us on the
beaches with bullets, clearing out caves with flame throwers, and
men like LeMay burning down their cities killing people by the tens
of thousands. And then it took 2 atom bombs on top of it. But if
that was what it took to win we were willing to do it. Until you
are willing to do the same...well I hope you enjoy this shit, because
it ain’t going to stop.”
— NKP_VET, FreeRepublic.com
FAFO used to be US military policy.