[Jim Noble]

What did the women and children in Hiroshima deserve?

Do you REALLY believe the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki DESERVED annihilation in the same sense as ISIS?

[Mouton]

Do you think those in Dresden or Hamburg or Tokyo which were all firebombed to extinction did. BTW, neither of these were strategic military targets. If not, they you have your answer.

I also don’t think any US prisoners there “deserved” their fate either. The point is where is there a concentration of ISIS. I believe they deserve their fate If you don’t take up a rifle and root them out yourself.

[RoadGumby]

No, but neither did our soldiers DESERVE to have to try to take Japan by invasion.

So, we made that unnecessary. War sucks.

[mkjessup]

What did the women and children in Hiroshima deserve?

It's the law of karma Mr. Noble. The women and children in Hiroshima received what was coming to them, for one reason due to the inhuman behavior of their warlords in Manchuria (see 'Unit 731', Rape of Nanking, etc.) and for another reason, that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought a quick end to a war that was fated to continue indefinitely which would have meant the needless deaths of good U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen. The women and children may not have personally 'deserved' it, but neither did the shattered families of our honored dead at Pearl Harbor after the Japs launched their dastardly attack of 7 December 1941. America didn't start that war, but we damn sure finished it and rightly so.

Do you REALLY believe the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki DESERVED annihilation in the same sense as ISIS?

Absolutely. The civilian population of Japan was in the grips of a militarist mindset that prevented them from surrendering, they intended to fight to the death anyway. Thanks to President Harry Truman, General Curtis LeMay, and the crews of the Enola Gay and Bock's Car, those deluded Japs outside of Ground Zero were spared that.

[exit82]

WW2 was all-out war. Civilians were bombed and died worldwide.

110,000 people died in the two atomic explosions.

The two bombs ended the war and saved one million American dead and wounded, and 5-7 million Japanese dead, had a land invasion taken place.

The overwhelming destruction convinced the Emperor not to sacrifice his entire land for Bushido.

By comparison, over 140,000 people were killed in the incendiary bombing raid on Tokyo on March 30, 1945 in a single night using conventional means.

[Delta 21]

This is part of what they use against us. Our own morality.

War is hell and in it there are no such things as civilians.

I give their innocent civilians just as much lee-way as they give ours.

[Turbo Pig]

What did the women and children in Hiroshima deserve?

It's naive and childish to take the stance that there are "innocents" in a culture war, such as what we are facing now. It's suicidal to wage war thinking there are when your enemy has proven they feel otherwise. Contrary to what liberals think, that doesn't mean we go about indiscriminately killing people. It does mean that we put our big boy pants on, realize that some people who don't "deserve" to die are going to, and we take care of business in the most ruthless and efficient manner possible.

I guess it's easier to swallow when you've been told, bluntly by your own leaders, that you are expendable (in a life and death manner)in accomplishing the mission.

[Jonty30]

No. If Japan had fought its war honorably, instead of using its civilian population as cover from Western aggression, few would have died from the bomb.

Blame Japan, not the West.