Second-Guessing Hiroshima?
https://origins.osu.edu/history-news/second-guessing-hiroshima?language_content_entity=en
“Criticism began within days of the obliteration of the two Japanese cities. On August 8, 1945, two days after the destruction of Hiroshima, former President Herbert Hoover wrote, “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.””
The alternative US landings on the Japanese home islands, which would have killed millions of Japanese and Americans, would have revolted Herbie’s soul even more.
OK, your soul is revolted. How nice (for you).
Allies would have lost close to a million soldiers — think of all those (mostly) American orphans.
My namesake uncle was fighting in Pacific theater. I piss on your sympathy.
War is hell, and as General Curtis LeMay said, it is your duty to end it as soon as possible.
Tell of your revulsion to the hundreds of thousands of sailors, soldiers, marines, and airmen who were preparing for the invasion of mainland Japan.
And how could President Truman have justified that operation when he had the means at hand to end the war with minimum loss of American lives?
And finally, the use of the bombs saved untold countless Japanese lives too.
Chunga85,
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t recall ever seeing you rebuke Russia for threatening to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Sweden, Finland, or NATO.
So pardon me if your pearl clutching over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is laughable to me.
Did Hoover decry the carpet bombing of Japanese cities that killed far more?
They attacked us. Anything that happened to them after that was their own fault. It really is just that simple.
Ah yes, good ‘ol Imperial Japan. Wasn’t Hirohito worshipped as a living god?
Japan would never have surrendered otherwise. Millions more people on both sides would have died.