Posted on 08/08/2015 4:27:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s one thing to plead military necessity. It’s one thing to say, “Under the contingent circumstances of 8/5/45, I would have done the same”.
It’s quite another to say that dropping a nuclear weapon, twice, on civilian populations was pleasing to Almighty God, or that we should thank Him for the bomb, or that the women, children, and Christian missionaries at Nagasaki deserved it, and so on and so on.
And the reciprocal - if all those innocents DESERVED it, what do WE deserve - is very concerning.
F them. They were the bad guys and got their asses kicked proper
Any student of the war in the Pacific will tell you that the bomb was the most humane way to put an end to the war with Japan that they started.
So long as they deny their war crimes especially Nanking, China.
If they could look ahead 70 years and see what this nation has become, I wonder how many Americans who fought in World War II would have considered it a worthwhile military campaign.
What's going to happen after our culture is (justifiably) eradicated?
There was a time when our enemies feared us.
Obama has intentionally emasculated the American persona on the world stage, inviting every manner of adventurism against America.
If we actually elect a man President who has the spine to make America great once more, someone (probably North Korea) is going to make a misstep and have their head handed to them.
There seems to be a steady drip drip drip of posts on Facebook trying to elicit white guilt. All are unattributed and some are easily refuted. Two days ago one was posted claiming that white Christian Europeans had committed genocide against the “indigenous” peoples and slaughtered 100 million. I checked. In all the western hemisphere when Columbus landed the estimate is that there were between 50-100 million people in the new world. I had a long debate with the woman who had shared it. She had a pretty conservative wall. She couldn’t support her position so she banned me whatever that means. I guess Facebook now has me on their list. Sigh. I just want to see the cute cat videos and my great nephews pix.
I have heard that some American school kids believe that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, in retaliation for the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's pretty sick too.
"But Pearl Harbor was a naval base."
In a way, I believe that's Freudian...
That's not because this is what they were taught. It's because most American school kids are dumb as bags of rocks.
Japan brought this on themselves when they bombed Pearl Harbor... No American should feel guilty about ending the war early against Japan - saving thousands of lives on all sides.
You mean, they’re as stupid as our publically schooled students?
What do you think Truman and the leaders back then would have done had they been in charge when Muslims attacked the United States and murdered almost 3,000 innocent Americans? on 9/11?
Nuked Kandahar.
The high death toll in the battle of Okinawa is what made his decision. I believe the only other battle in history where there was more loss of American lives was Gettysburg
Japan surrendered because they believed that we would keep nuking them until they did.
Yet the whiners make a big deal out of the a-blasts even though the death tolls between those and the conventional raids were roughly equal. Why do they not shed as many tears for the enemy civilians killed in the non a-bomb blasts? They ended up just as dead. Selective outrage.
And as Hawkins points out the Japanese murdered many millions of enemy civilians...much of the killings just for the heck of it. It's difficult to feel too sorry for the dead Japanese civilians when you read accounts of the slaughter of the Chinese, Filipino, and other civilians by the sons of Nippon.
The same as the military value of killing hundreds of thousands of German civilians; among other things, it kept them from getting up in the morning and going to work making weapons that would be used to kill our soldiers.
That, and it provided a powerful example that their existing course of action would lead only to more death and destruction.
Predictions are difficult but my best guess is Sharia law. Along the way there we might have some sort of multicultural free-for-all. I don't think anyone will nuke us but I could be wrong.
They just sentenced a truck driver to 16 years in prison in La Crosse Wi. (close to where I live) for smashing into another car on I-90 while checking his Facebook page and killing a person in the car. The truck driver was going 55 mph when he crashed into the car ahead of him that was moving slowly due to heavy traffic.
Sorry about post 79...wrong thread.
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