Aielyn said:
No need to apologise "to the end of time". Just once. America has not once apologised for using nuclear weapons on innocent people. You are the only nation on earth who has done so. And if you don't understand the concept of apologising on behalf of another person, or on behalf of an organisation or government, then I pity you. Edit:
That's one of those lies that America has kept telling itself - that Japan wouldn't have surrendered without the bombs, and that the bombs therefore saved lives. There is simply no evidence to justify either of these beliefs. But even if there were, treating Japanese civilian lives as a worthy sacrifice to reduce American military casualties is an abhorrent way to view the events. The people who were obliterated, the people who were massively poisoned and suffered long, agonising deaths due to radiation poisoning, the people who lost everything because America felt they were justified in using a Weapon of Mass Destruction twice. Mistreatment of prisoners is certainly a problem, but they were military. The people who were murdered en masse in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilians. If you honestly believe that the Japanese government should *again* apologise for their actions, and that it is not appropriate for America to apologise for its abhorrent actions, then you are, yourself, abhorrent. |
The refusal of Japan to surrender is not a lie it is a documented fact. Look up Operation Ketsugo, Japan's plans for countering the invasion, and Operation Cherry Blossom at Night. The Japanese government were preparing to have an enormous percentage of their *civilian* population fight the invasion. Japanese casualties would have been astronomical. They were arming civilians with spears and muskets for goodness sakes. That's how much the Japanese government cared. Cause they wanted an armistice to save their sorry skin. Cause they knew when they surrendered most of them were dead cause they didn't just "mistreat prisoners". They killed, mostly without cause, over 10 *million* civilians in Asia over the course of their long, aggressive, brutal campaign; enslaved d millions throughout the Pacific; forced over 200k estimated women into sex slavery; and killed hundreds of thousands in development of biological weapons to attempt to use on the US civilian population. Hirohito PERSONALLY approved the order late in the war for Japanese forces in China to " Kill all, burn all, loot all, resulting in the deaths of millions of civilians. The US was not going to let those spineless invertebrates slink off with an Armistice. Nor were they going to allow them to march millions of Japanese, many civilian, to their deaths just to force one, never mind the over a million US soldiers who would have died. And Hiroshima and Nagasaki - especially Hiroshima - were doomed to be destroyed in the even of an invasion. Whether by one plane carrying a nuke or dozens carrying firebombs and other heavy ordinance, Hiroshima would have been destroyed as it was the command center for all of south Japan and a base for 40,000 military personnel. And we didn't have high precision weapons at the time. Nagasaki was s crucial industrial center for the war machine. Also would have been targeted in a conventional invasion. So whether by conventional bombings or at the hands of their own government via suicidal Operation Ketsugo, most or all of the casualties of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still would have happened. Hiroshima and Nagasaki + the strikes by Russia were instrumented to show the Japanese gov and people that there would be no "war of attrition" to secure an armistice for them, only - as promised on the Potsdam Declaration they chose to ignore - prompt and utter destruction.
