What was Operation Downfall?
Everybody get the lesson in this? Ted? Nancy? John? John? Jimmy?
so, let's celebrate by dropping another on maybe tehran, mecca, medina and just for emphasis, damascus.
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It is one of the absurdities of modern Political Leftism. They want to argue that it was some how immoral to use the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs. That we could of "Besieged" the Japanese.
That utter nonsense. The infrastructure of the Japanese islands was breaking down. Japan could not feed itself and relied on food imports. Instead of killing Japanese Civilians in the tens of thousands. The Leftist "Siege" would of killing millions from disease, starvation and malnutrition. EVEN then there is NO indication that would of broke the Japanese will. Japanese soldiers hung on various pacific islands for decades after WW 2 ended. Even after the bombs dropped die hard militarists tried to stop the Emperor from surrendering.
Then their is the question. What response would the Japanese been to an invasion and occupation. The Left screams about the Iraqis "Insurgency" what do you suppose a Japanese Insurgency would of done? Also, who knows if the Japanese would of survived as a people? The Civilian and Military casualties on Siapan and Okinawa were horrific. Give the intensifying tempo of suicide attacks,the fire power brought down on the Japanese Home Island prior to and during an Invasion would of killed tens of thousands if not millions of civilians as well as military forces.
So to save a nation we kills a number of cities. We will do so again. This Baby Boomer sophomoric cant about "cannot save Lebanon by destroying its villages" is utter and complete nonsense. Yeah we can.
Question is. Will we?
This day 61 years ago my ship, The USS Trnquillity loaded the survivors of the USS Indianapolis at Paleleu island for transport to Guam.
The Indianapolis had delivered the bomb to Tinian island for the delivery to Hiroshima.
This day marks the real end to the Pacific war.
I was just watching the History Channel show. It was pretty good until they dropped the bomb, and then it was all "pity the poor Japanese."
Just remember, if there had not been a Pearl Harbor, there wouldn't have had to be a Hiroshima.
Or another way to consider it,,the bombs spared a lot G.I.s lives, who went home to start families and generate a lot of "modern-day-certified-snot-faced-liberals. Sar.