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Let me say something that a lot of people think, but don’t want to say because we’re friendly with Japan now: Japan deserved to be nuked and it deserved it ten times over.
Really? If this is the case, then what does the United States deserve today? More on that below.
Japan was allied with the Nazis in a war of world conquest that would have exterminated freedom and democracy across the globe if they were successful. The Japanese deliberately starved and slaughtered millions of civilians, they raped children and pregnant women, they forced families to have sex with each other for the fun of it, they tortured and experimented on prisoners of war -- and then there was Pearl Harbor.
If Japan deserved to "nuked ten times over" for all this, then what price should the United States of America pay for slaughtering 50+ million of our own defenseless children since Roe v. Wade? It's astonishing how freely this guy is willing to rain death down upon someone else for crimes and abominations that aren't nearly as horrific as our own.
First off, Pearl Harbor needed to be avenged in a manner so terrible that it made our enemies think twice about striking our homeland again. In fact, some might argue that Japan got off light.
This is baloney. Pearl Harbor was barely "our homeland" in 1941. Hawaii wasn't even a state at the time -- and when the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor was hitting the airwaves that day, the vast majority of Americans didn't even know where it was.
Happily, it didn’t have to come to that and yet Japan was punished for what it did in a way so terrible that it will live on until the end of human history. That’s no small matter because after what we did to Japan, nobody tried going after us again on our home turf until 9/11. What’s 50+ years of going without a strike on America as devastating as Pearl Harbor or 9/11 worth? Actually, quite a lot.
The author makes it sound like we have made it through the last 70 years unscathed. We have a homosexual Muslim who is a radical Islamic interloper sitting in our White House, dude. And look around you at what America has become. We destroyed Japan so we could be free to build this?
When people moan about the use of nuclear weapons in Japan, what they’re really saying is that they’d rather hundreds of thousands of American families had grown up without husbands, fathers and sons than see us use nuclear weapons on a genocidal nation bent on world conquest.
No, that's B.S. The author makes a common logical mistake of laying out one scenario with millions of casualties, then retroactively justifying it by claiming to demonstrate that the alternative was "better" by some objective measure. What would the logical extension of this argument be if Japan didn't surrender after Nagasaki?
The Japanese weren’t the victims in WWII; they were the bad guys.
This is where the author's initial argument completely falls flat on its face. You can't argue on one hand that Japan was governed by a brutal, totalitarian regime that was hell-bent on eradicating democracy ... and then paint Japanese civilians as complicit players who deserved to pay for the sins of their leadership.
In fact, historical facts expose the author's entire underlying premise is exposed as a fallacy. The Japanese royal family who were ultimately responsible for all of the crimes that the author claims justified the annihilation of Japanese cities were never prosecuted after the war.
You gotta do better than this, Mr. Hawkins.
We eradicated that culture and the world is a better place. Expecting perfection in war is a little silly.
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.