[MNJohnnie]

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?

[mainepatsfan]

The folks who argue against the bomb have no concept at how far the Japanese were willing to go to defend the home islands. Okinawa should be all the evidence one needs.

[mass55th]

"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. "

Thank God the UN wasn't around back then, we'd have had resolution after resolution without anything ever being done. As well, if the Dems of today were around back then, they'd want us to boycott Japan and Germany, and try to work things out through diplomacy. How about multilateral talks. Unfortunately for Murtha, back then we wouldn't have been able to redeploy our troops to Okinawa.