Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 12/05/2009 6:00:32 PM PST by NYer
They were planning on releasing biological weapons that really could have wiped out most of the planet. They just needed a bit more time to perfect it.
Some here would have given them that time.
I presume you would have preferred that the war dragged on for an invasion of Japan.Why do you presume that? And why do you equate the lives of combatants to the lives of innocent children?
Really? Under what moral code? Certainly NOT that of the Christ Risen.
Why can’t you answer?
I want every single person who is whining about the "poor helpless sweet lovable Japanese" to agree infect themselves with one of the deceases developed by Unit 731 and be treated only with the medical treatment available in 1945.Why? And how does that answer the basic question? When is it moral to kill an innocent child?
Do not use potty language - or references to potty language - on the Religion Forum.
“How many of those “innocent children” had practiced their gutting skills on the living bodies of US Service members?”
None. Zero. Else they would not be innocent. And how does that answer the basic question? When is it moral to kill an innocent child?
I am not citing any Moral Code. It is my preference that my enemies die, not my allies or those who are fighting on my behalf. And not all members of this Board are Christians.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
So when America chose to kill innocent civilians, including children, they may not have been “innocent”, right?
Do not use potty language - or references to potty language - on the Religion Forum.
Wasn’t the weird thing supposed to be that Nagasaki was an alternate second site bombed after they weren’t able to locate the primary target and also happened to be a major center of Christianity in Japan?
... because, in God's eyes, all lives are equally valuable.Not so. To kill a man in self defense is different than killing a random innocent child, both to you and to God, no?
That was what was coming. That was what was stopped.
Imagine what would have happened to war torn Europe with another outbreak of the Black Death. Since they seem to think that it would make them morally superior to have suffered such a fate rather then to have used the A-bomb I just would like them to put their money where their mouth is.
So let's go. Put up or shut up. Don't forget to infect your children as well.
As to the other I have already answered.
I am not citing any Moral Code.OK.
It is my preference that my enemies die, not my allies or those who are fighting on my behalf.Innocent children are your enemies?
And not all members of this Board are Christians.No kidding?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
All war is a crime. Name me one war America started.
By 1945 mass genocide was being practiced by all major combatants: US, Great Britain, USSR, Germany, Japan.
Thank God the US was the first to create and use the atomic bomb. Other than Great Britain, any other combatants having done so would have resulted in unimaginable slaughter on a much greater scale.
Each country was attempting to create atomic weapons. We got there first.
We used it to 1) bring the Japanese militarists to their knees, 2) intimidate the Russians, 3) show the world exactly what atomic weapons could do and 4) to show the US taxpayers a $2 Billion return on investment.
Cry all you like for the citizens of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I instead honor and respect them as casualties that saved the human race, and am ever thankful of their sacrifice.
My father, a paratrooper and wounded Operation Varsity vet, was on the troop carrier SS James Jackson in the Panama Canal as part of an anti-tank combat team on the way to the assembling Operation Olympic invasion task force.
Kyushu was heavily fortified, and if Okinawa wa any indication of Japanese resistance, General Marshall had inquired of General Groves how many weapons he could provide the invasion force for use as tactical weapons.
I have read every civilian account of the effects of the Little Boy and Fat Man, and it is unimaginably horrific and can only be described as hell on earth. There is NO justification for such acts.
But yet I would not be here if they were not perpetrated.
So again I owe my existence to the citizans of Hiroshima on August 6. 1945, and the citizens of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
And how many other members of subsequent generations after those dates can say the same? My children, and the children of my brothers.
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