The Japanese were not shy about bombing civilians in Shanghai or anywhere else.
As Lord Mountbatten said, “the decision to use atomic weapons was made in a total war context and it has never been viewed that way since.”
For those who cry “racism” at the use of the a-bomb one only needs to look toward the similar treatment of white Europeans in the fire bombings of Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne, and other German cities with cumulative death tolls close to those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was war and we fought to win.
And it was the LAST war we fought to win.
My grandfather had survived being kamikazied at Okinawa. His ship, the Bunker Hill, was back at Bremerton being repaired for the bloody planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. The A-bombs meant that never came to pass and millions of Americans and Japanese did not have to die. Had he still been alive, I can only imagine what he would say about Kerry’s sniveling about those bombings.
Close?
They were far higher ....the fire bombs