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

[rocketpig]

bazmeistergen said:

rocketpig said:

routsounmanman 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

I'm japan was so Innocent

Do you know history?

I never said the Japanese were good folks. Every member of the Axis, and many of the Allies actually went on a killing spree during WW2, civilians included. You just can't claim that the US went on a crusade and the bombing was justifiable, no way.

They were crimes of war, end of story.

Then everyone in WWII was guilty of crimes of war. Dresden, London, Leningrad, Tokyo, Nanking, continue ad nauseum.

It was a war where carpet bombing entire cities and civilians was commonplace. It was an ugly war and ugly things had to be done to finish it.

Once again, ONLY if you accept the premise that the Japanese didn't want to surrender. They did.

Even AFTER the bombs were dropped, there were factions within Japan that resisted and tried to stop the surrender.

Some of your assumptions that the Japanese were ready to roll over and give up completely are greatly overstated.