What's your point of view in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb?

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mhsillen said:

mhsillen said:

routsounmanman said:

I can't believe what I'm hearing from some people! US went to war with Afghanistan and Iraq to "combat terrorism". With your logic, them nuking Los Angeles would have been a great resolve to end the war...

Seriously, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be considered nothing less than terrorism and crimes of war, there's no spinning that.

oh bad usa bad

 japan was so Innocent

Do you know history?

You seem to think there is a single history with this statement... surely you understand that history is a discourse rather than a set of single truths to defend with argument (which is how some people on this thread seem to see it, so this isn't totally directed at your fine self)?

Why get so defensive over a concept? America is a just a word rather than anything real, though millions of people think otherwise about their respective nations. I think that attachment to nation is utterly insane behaviour. Overall, the US (whatever that means) did some bad things, the Japanese (if such a thing exists) did some bad things. Summary, people do bad things and people do good things and both of these terms appear to have an element of subjectivity.

There is no singular entity that does stuff in the world, even governments have a mass of views and motivations when doing things and out of this morass comes a multiplicity of actions. Historians then simplify this into a narrative that suits there own political agendas.