[jonno]

“the horror.”

It’s easy to condemn the US for dropping the bomb’s on Hiroshima & Nagasaki - until you understand the history of Japan’s atrocities.

I’m 3/4 of the way through “Unbroken” - Louis Zamperini’s story. The book gives an excellent account of Japan’s actions before and during the war and it’s treatment of other cultures - specifically it’s treatment of foreign prisoners. I would like to see just one leftist explain why it was wrong to drop the bombs - in the light of ‘the rape of Nanking’.

In the end, those bombs saved the lives of millions by forcing the Japanese to surrender. It’s horrible to ponder what would have happened otherwise...

[Telepathic Intruder]

You also have to realize that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. Like today's Islamic terrorists who use humans as shields, the Japanese hid their military installations within civilian populations. I've already partially read "the rape of Nanking". The atrocities of the genocidal Japanese army make Pearl Harbor seem like a picnic. The treatment of American prisoners also show they deserved no kid gloves in that war.

There is also the matter of Japanese internment camps. The armchair moralists don't seem to realize that we were in a struggle for survival, and there were Japanese spies and saboteurs living in the U.S. If we went too far to defend the USA, it's not for those later sitting in their easy chairs to decide. Nanking could have happened here, too. We were, after all, losing the war at first. Most of those interned were duel citizens who also held some allegiance to Japan.