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Anti Japanese propaganda...none of your comments pertain to Japanese forces...you only want to talk about civilians...racist...Great arguments, wonderfully full and developed.

Did you even read COEXERJ145's post? Did you read any of mine? So far, all your rebuttals are absolute sophistry. If you have a point, cite some authorities, and no, you don't count.

If I were advising you as a friend, I'd say stop posting, and proving you're a moron. It's better to have people wonder if you're idiot, rather than open your mouth and prove it.

DK

As a hint, discourse is usually done by one party making statements, and the other party responding to those statements, and making their own. Logical fallicies and silliness are easily seen and well defined.

You might want to study them.

"bonesmccoy" is clearly so dug in on a position that is indefensible that he is hiding behind ad hominem attacks to divert attention from his lack of a logical response. It is clear from the responses of those who do not agree with "the boner" that we all are well versed in the facts of WWII history and have put substantial thought into our interpretations. Since our interpretations do not agree with those of "the boner," he calls us "pathetically uninformed." Our sin is not a lack of familiarity of the facts, but a failure to see things "the boner's" way.

The facts are clear: Japan started a war of conquest it was not able to finish. Japan showed no signs it would surrender without several more months of bloody war and brutal occupation of Southeast Asia. An invasion was most likely going to be required, and the death toll just of Japanese citizens probably would have greatly exceeded the casualty toll of the atomic attacks. There were strong suggestions the Japanese would have slaughtered several hundred thousand Allied POWs and civilian internees before admitting defeat. Faced with this, Truman acted correctly AND humanely in ending the war quickly through atomic warfare.

Was the attack on Japan a horrible example of war and destruction? Clearly yes. Did Japan reap what it sowed in Nanking, at Pearl Harbor, during the Bataan Death March, in the construction of the bridge on the River Kwai, and in the thousands of other atrocities the Japanese inflicted upon the civilians and military personnel of China, the U.S.A., the UK, Siam, Burma, Malaysia, etc.? Even more clearly, yes.