>>You're not as educated on this issue as thorough as you tend to believe.
I never said I was a scholar on it... LOL
But very few have been able to actually argue anything but "my grandpa was gonna head to japan so that makes you a total a$$"...
>>Groupthink is not the topic
I know it's not, I just responded to an individual who presumed I was a leftie troll...
>>, the wisdom of forcing the Empire of Japan to surrender, without invasion, by dropping two atomic weapons is. You have couched your position in moral terms, yet you fail to recognize the moral failure of the Japanese government for attempting to conquer Asia
No, I do not. Did I even defend the Japanese government or military? Not one bit...
>>. Therefore; Is the freedom of 100's of millions of Asian civilians worth the lives of a hundred thousand Japanese civilians? The answer is a yes beyond a doubt.
Easy to to make that decision isn't it? How can 100's of millions of asian civilians die if we attack the japanese MILITARY?? Attacking civilians is not the answer. It may be in your book, but that's just your character flaw...
I beg to differ, by your own admission you claim expertise....."LOL", to wit:
"I'm American of hispanic descent, a conservative (former republican), and educated on this issue (and others)."
So which is it? Do you know what your debating about or not?
But very few have been able to actually argue anything but "my grandpa was gonna head to japan
Therefore, had "grandpa" perished in the invasion of Japan, the person posting that sentence would not now exist. Think about it.
Did I even defend the Japanese government or military? Not one bit...
Nor did you condemn them for their complicity in their own predicament by having started the war in the first place. I realize that it is a minor and annoying fact for you that the Empire of Japan attacked the United States on the 7th. of December, 1941, but it is an incident to take into consideration. Is it not?
"Easy to to make that decision isn't it? How can 100's of millions of Asian civilians die if we attack the Japanese MILITARY??"
You obviously misunderstood my statement or its comprehension is beyond your meager faculties. When the bombs were dropped it signaled the end of the Japanese Empire throughout all Asia. The Japanese occupation of Korea, China, Indochina and Burma and occupied islands in the Pacific were now certain to end. The dropping of the A-bombs on Japan freed those Asian peoples under Japanese domination. I would wager that the number of Japanese killed by the atomic bombs did not even come close to the Asian civilians killed and tortured by the Japanese army from 1932 to 1945. You seem to have the proclivity to mentally exclude facts that do not fit your dogmatic notions of the subject and all its effects and ramifications.
but that's just your character flaw...
Careful, if you want to make this personal, I'm prepared for that too, Tonto.