Posted on 08/03/2005 1:18:32 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
> Indiscriminate genocide is a crime against humanity.
Which, of course, the nuking of two cities was *not.* Had the US made an effort to make the Japanese extinct, *that* would be genocide. But the a-bombs were no more genocide than the Jap firebombing of Shanghai was genocide.
> The A bomb is not something to thank God for.
Correct. Thanks here go to Einstein and Oppenheimer and Groves.
I can think of a couple of other places that could use a good nuking right now...
Even if it only ends the Jihad a few weeks early,
it's all right with me.
Everything you say may be true, but it still wasn't a blessing for the thousands and thousands who suffered horribly from the bomb, and I can imagine being pretty steamed by your statement that it was "a blessing for all" if I were a mother who had seen her children incinerated on that day. Can't we live with two conflicting thoughts in our head -- it was something that had to be done, AND it was anything but a blessing?
What places should we bomb? That's the problem. We could bomb Riyadh or Teheran and some maniac in Birmingham or Los Angeles would still be going around with dynamite in his backpack. Oh for the good old days of the nation state....
There was nothing indiscriminate about the dropping of those bombs, they were intended to hit major Japanese infastructure and they hit their mark. With the unthinkable atrocities that befell our servicemen that fell into the hands of these people, not to mention the generations of Chinese wiped out by them, I can't say I have any problem whatsoever with how the end of the war played out. They threw down the gauntlet, not us. We finished the job, as well we should have, and saved countless lives in it's wake.
>>Which, of course, the nuking of two cities was *not.*
Sure was. A genocide need not wipe out an entire race of people. It can wipe out an entire class, such as those residing in a particular area...
>>But the a-bombs were no more genocide than the Jap firebombing of Shanghai was genocide.
As I stated, America was not alone...
>>With the unthinkable atrocities that befell our servicemen that fell into the hands of these people, not to mention the generations of Chinese wiped out by them, I can't say I have any problem whatsoever with how the end of the war played out.
That's simply becuase you have a flawed sense of justice...
Please, elaborate. This should be good.
It was a blessing for Americans. It sucked for the Japanese. Here's my conflicting thoughts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456189/posts
There were alternatives, including laying siege to Japan via Naval blockade, but I guess the idea was to get it over with..
It's not quite that easy. The war in the Pacific was more than just a matter of invading Japan.
When the big bombs hit Japan, my father was on a train in France, heading to a port to take him to the CBI. That fighting would have continued, blockade or no blockade. Those bombs probably saved him, and countless other Americans and Asians. Thank God for the A bomb.
If we had 100 A bombs available, and used all of them to avoid an invasion, it would still be a good trade.
No. Thank Oppenheimer.
I think 1st is suggesting we were too easy on them.
The United States lost 300000 soldiers in Europ, North Africa and Pacific from Dec 1941 to September 1945
>>Please, elaborate. This should be good.
You elaborated for me with your response... You may feel that what you said is ok, but consider this. Those with mental problems quite often can't see their own illness. (Not that you are mental, but the point is that I'm sure you see nothing wrong with your post...)
>>Those bombs probably saved him, and countless other Americans and Asians. .
Probably? How can you be so sure?
>>Thank God for the A bomb
The Abomb is an affront to the Natural Law, and hence, an affront to God.
>>If we had 100 A bombs available, and used all of them to avoid an invasion, it would still be a good trade.
Depends where you lived at the time, doesn't it???? ;-)
hahaha...
Do you have any knowledge at all of the war in the Pacific or are you just naturally overly emotional?
Do you have any knowledge at all of the war in the Pacific or are you just naturally overly emotional?
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