Posted on 08/09/2015 2:49:19 PM PDT by NRx
...In 1945, however, we also soon heard much of the other side of the story, and how that same appalling tragedy might have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of American and British servicemen who could well have died in the invasion of Japan which would otherwise have been necessary to end the war. Only more slowly did it come to light how the atom bombs had also saved the lives of anything up to a million prisoners in camps across south-east Asia, whom the fanatical Japanese commander, Marshal Terauchi, intended to massacre if the allies landed on the Japanese mainland.
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After what they did to the Chinese, they deserved it. The POW tortures, Pearl Harbor, they brought it on themselves.
War is Hell. Don’t start them.
But when they are started against you end them by destroying the enemy.
It wasn’t just the Chinese, it was the Koreans, the Philippines and a bunch of other places too. The Japanese were barbaric. They were much worse than the nukes were.
and make it as quick and as unfair as possible.
Unfortunately we seemed to have forgotten that.
You win “hearts and minds” with overwhelming firepower.
Very few really know WHY the bomb was dropped:
As the war went on, the allies observed the land grab going on by Stalin in Eastern Europe —would Stalin later LEAVE? A lot of folks had doubts.
The Yalta Agreement required that after the eventual fall of Hitler, Stalin would HAVE to be in on the fall of Japan:
That could mean a land-grab on the Japanese islands, too.
A post-war look at West/East Germany for 50 years, and another look at Korea to this very day shows such fears were warranted.
If the Japanese had not been induced to surrender quickly in a very special way, we would probably have a divided Japan to This Very Day.
The Emperor also would have been executed, with a long insurgency then taking place.
The bomb was dropped to keep Stalin’s grubby hand off of Japan.
The Germans and Japanese used to be the most cruel vicious SOBs on the earth. They both got an attitude adjustment and are now the nicest, most pacifist peoples around. They build things the world loves.
We lost a golden opportunity after 9/11. 10 H-bombs could have changed the world. Medina, Riyadh, Damascus, Tehran, Baghdad, Islamabad, Kabul, and of course three of our largest on Mecca.
I was president, I would order all Americans and foreigners to leave the named cities on the 13th or remain at your own risk. Nationalize all their assets on the 14th. Do it on 9/15. Then continue over here like nothing ever happened.
They would be a much better place today.
You’re right and I didn’t forget the Koreans and Philippines and so many others. It took those two nukes to break the back of Imperial Japan or they would have done so much more damage.
The Bomb saved many American lives, to say nothing of the millions of JAPANESE lives it saved.
*applause*
The Isis of our parents’ generation.
My Uncle was in the “Island Hopping War,” and was just waiting to be shipped to Japan. He and his buddies breathed huge sighs of relief when the bombs were dropped!
They drew first blood.
Mt father and my father-in-law survived WW2 because of the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan. My view is. if you don't like what war brings to your country then don't start one.
A Hiroshima woman survivor was a guest speaker at my daughter’s HS about 4 years ago. She became a puppet of the anti-nuke, anti-war left. You should have heard the groans from kids in the audience when I raised my hand and talked about the 500,000 GI’s that would have died with an invasion of mainland Japan. She said no...also didn’t think the Chinese atrocities were true. Sorry for her pain, but a house fire would have produced the same scars.
The “cost” pales compared what Japan did to others. Japan got off fairly lightly for what they did.
All this over Hiroshima.
Last February was the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Manila, where the Japanese massacred 100,000 civilians. A Hiroshima-scale killing with bayonets, rifles, grenades, nothing high tech.
Were there hundreds of lamenting articles all over the international press ?
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