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Was it Wrong to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan?
In recent years, many academics and others have condemned President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and immoral. Yet this interpretation relies on a poor understanding of history that both lacks perspective and ignores context. Dropping the bomb shortened the war and saved countless lives -- both American and Japanese. In five minutes, Professor of History at Notre Dame, Father Wilson Miscamble, explains.
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it was either that or the U.S. would loose well over a million men in the invasion of Japan.... Obama's warped sense of justice lacks reality....
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the question: Was it Wrong to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan?
the answer: no
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As I see it, there was no need to invade Japan; they had already lost the war. If, for some reason, the Allies had felt the need to exact concessions, they could have instituted a naval blockade.
Given that Japan had already lost, I can't see any (ed. morally acceptable) rationale for dropping bombs that deliberately targeted their civilian population.
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Originally Posted by
njtom
As I see it, there was no need to invade Japan; they had already lost the war. If, for some reason, the Allies had felt the need to exact concessions, they could have instituted a naval blockade.
Given that Japan had already lost, I can't see any (ed. morally acceptable) rationale for dropping bombs that deliberately targeted their civilian population.
They were a country of religious lunatics, the atomic bombs broke their spirit. It wouldnt have worked on the Germans, they had to get rid of Hitler first and then they broke down naturally.
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Originally Posted by
njtom
As I see it, there was no need to invade Japan; they had already lost the war. If, for some reason, the Allies had felt the need to exact concessions, they could have instituted a naval blockade.
Given that Japan had already lost, I can't see any (ed. morally acceptable) rationale for dropping bombs that deliberately targeted their civilian population.
Tell that to the Japanese ..!if you had asked them at the time they were winning the war
I guess starving those civilians to death through a naval blockade would have Been more humane according to left wing liberal logic .
Or perhaps we would have simply let the soviets have them . I am sure a soviet invasion would have been very "humane"
I tell you liberal logic
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Originally Posted by
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Tell that to the Japanese ..!if you had asked them at the time they were winning the war
I guess starving those civilians to death through a naval blockade would have Been more humane according to left wing liberal logic .
Or perhaps we would have simply let the soviets have them . I am sure a soviet invasion would have been very "humane"
I tell you liberal logic
Atomic bombs are more spectacular than starvation and therefore feel less humane. Or less clean.
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Atomic bombs are more spectacular than starvation and therefore feel less humane. Or less clean.
Maybe if we had firebombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki as we had been doing Tokyo and had already done Dresden killing more people than we eventually did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki we would have been more humane ? 😄
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It did cause Japan to surrender
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It seems like it was necessary.
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