Posted on 08/06/2008 7:08:42 AM PDT by PurpleMan
Yeah, right ... it would have been far more honorable to kill a million Americans and 30 million Japanese.
Then by all means do try and bring some charges.
Let me know how that works out for you.
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Your original assertion was that 'many' US Military officers considered it a war crime to drop the atomic bombs. I challenged you to name two of those Officers.
You haven't done it.
All you've done is repeat your opinion that it was.
The fact is if ANY US Military Officer felt that dropping those weapons was a War Crime they would have been duty bound to immediately report it as such up their chain of command or, if they were Flag Officers, order arrests themselves. If they were ordered to commit what they felt was a War Crime, they're duty bound to resign their commission immediately.
Further, they would have been duty bound to do everything in their power to see that the action they felt were criminal be stopped before they could be carried out or repeated.
Since none of these things happened, your original assertion is therefore untrue.
So unless you can come up with cited quotations of these US Military officers, you're perpetuating a lie.
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Decent people have no use for the sort of “honor” that consists of dishonest appeals to justify evil acts.
PS: I hope those cites were enough for you.
The Nazis and Japs wanted ‘Total War’ and they got it.
I trust you're equally disgusted with the Japanese military and their hideous murders of tens of thousands of civilians all over the Pacific just for the sheer sport of it.
Oh and the biological warfare experiments, live dissections of POW's, and on and on and on...
That certainly sounds honorable. /sarc
Yeah, right. So sad that "duty bound" stuff doesn't happen all the time. So sad to have to inform you of this.
I more than fulfilled your demand; you just don't like it. Tough.
Getting personal and changing the subject only expose the weakness of your special pleading.
I didn't see a single name in your post, let alone two.
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What the heck are you talking about?
P. S. I didn't see a lot of references to war crimes in the cites you gave.
"Getting personal and changing the subject only expose the weakness of your special pleading."
I don't see how my question was changing the subject by any degree. It was basically a two-choice set: either continue doing what we had been doing .. the carpet- and fire-bombing which would have eventually had to be followed by an invasion .. or dropping the nukes.
None of the individuals that you've referred to would have agreed to walking away and leaving the Japanese alone, nor simply blockading them. So it becomes a "one or the other" choice.
You are entitled to your feelings, but the hard evidence and intelligence estimates point to far fewer casualties inflicted and received by the dropping of the nukes.
Every time I’m tempted to feel guilty about the nuking of Japan, I think of Nanking, and that pretty well takes care of it.
Additionally, almost right up the minute that the Emperor ordered the surrender, factions of the Japanese military was involved in what was essentially a coup to gain control of the person of the Emperor and prevent him from announcing the surrender. So, it doesn’t sound to me like the Japanese hierarchy or military high command considred themselves “on the ropes” by any stretch of the imagination.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
I wasn’t arguing about history, but about law.
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What law of war forbade the use of nuclear weapons?
Biggest favor one country ever did for another, and after that treacherous, sneak attack, too.
America is good!
You need reading lessons, friend. And the moral courage to admit when you’re wrong.
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