These accounts never seem to mention how many of these people cheered when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
I don't think I would characterize it as a disaster. Seems like it worked the way it was supposed to, and with the intended results. The disaster was allowing the Japanese government to rule the country and take it down the wrong road for most of the first half of the twentieth century.
Yeah - some how the fact that they started the war eludes their writers...
I used to teach engineering design in high school.
In a cross teach day, I ended up teaching WW2 history.
I asked the class, How many new about Hiroshima - 100% did
Then I asked how many new about the rape of Nanking. - 0%
A little in class web research project was their assignment.
The we took a vote - which was worse, the killing of approx 1,000,000 people over six weeks and the rape of all women between 8 and 80, or Hiroshima. Hiroshima got no votes.
When is deliberate killing of innocent children moral?
Uh-huh. We didn’t deal them terrible blow ‘cause we were bored and there was nothing on TV. There was a reason. Folks need to consider the adversary’s actions that precipitated it. They need to consider the other options that were available.
Hundreds of thousands, millions are going to die. That’s given. Whether they die in one big bang or a billion smaller ones, is human suffering not at least equal?
IMO, Best to end it in 1 or 2 big bangs, shatter their will to fight immediately than to slog through the entire country for years fighting battles in every town.
One punch knockout. Done. Lost quick, and hurt a lot but when they woke up they didn’t have a pumpkinhead, 2 black eyes, mouthful of broken teeth, ear missing, fractured ribs, and a broken ankle too.