Posted on 08/01/2021 12:40:44 PM PDT by Retain Mike
Imperative
That dance song “You Dropped The Bomb On Me!” by The Gap Band comes to mind.
That too.
We killed and damaged more in the fire raids of Tokyo than Hiroshima and Nagasaki with far fewer Americans, and that's what I care about, put in peril.
Japan started the war and we finished it.
If we'd conducted Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan in the same manner the world would be a different place.
The Japanese had developed an atomic weapon.
Atom Bomb Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXSUEU7ISfQ
Please ask a mod to correct the spelling of “imparative” to
“imperative.”
Would you care to expand on that outlandish claim?
Regards,
There were three choices:
Invasion. Lots of deaths. Lots of civilian deaths. Lots and lots of money. And we would have lost Korea, China, and half of Japan to the Russians.
Starve them, bomb them. Lots of time. ALL civilian deaths. We would have lost half the territory to the Russians. The Japanese people would effectively be wiped from the earth.
Nuke them. The cost was sunk. Minimal time. The lowest casualties. No dealing with Stalin.
Seems like a no brainer to me.
Imperative. My bad. Spelling errors is a peeve of mine..
Norman Cousins, the famed author and magazine editor, who was an aide to MacArthur, would later reveal: “MacArthur’s views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed....When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.”
Settled science.
I feel for the Japanese people, when thoughts of The Bombs come up. But it was necessary. As Gene Hackmans character said in that movie with Denzel Washington (Crimson Tide)... “Would I have dropped The Bomb? Hell yes sir! I’da dropped the f*cker TWICE!”
I’ve had discussions over the years with people about this. Some say that we should not have dropped the bombs, because Japan was already so weak and on the verge of surrender.
Some say we should have dropped a bomb offshore in the Pacific somewhere, to show the Japanese the power of the bomb we had, and tell them if they don’t surrender, we will use these bombs for real on them. I don’t know how well that would have worked, because we only had a handful of bombs ready to go at that point in time. And then we would have had one less to use for real, if we did the demonstration, but the Japanese called our bluff.
No question. But, every so often, some prick will insert the question into a discussion, “Do you realize that we are the only ones to ever do such a thing?” And shock and awe and shame will follow for many.
Haven’t heard that one before. Reminds me of the Manhatten Transfer. A quartet that dressed in tuxedos often sang acapella.
That’s what my father always told me. That we had to nuke them or lose countless American lives.
Today, Japan is an ally and a model country, I believe.
They certainly aren’t the ones who unleashed Covid upon the world.
Sorry, just feeling a little ticked off at China in the wake of this endless mask-wearing.
The problem is not that we used the bomb twice on Japan.
The problem is we haven’t used it since...
It’s true that “imperative” is spelled with an e, but I found the post to be quite interesting nonetheless.
A good reminder of our history.
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