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babygirl005 -> RE: Remembrance: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (8/9/2007 2:25:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Emperor1956
No one wins in a war. Can't you jingoistic fools (Nighthawk and Estring, not to put too fine a point on it) who post things about "evil" Japan and "good" USA figure that out? In terms of raw civilian body count (or ANY body count, for that matter), the two nuclear bombings of Japan far outweigh the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Does that make one right and one wrong? Of course not.
The debate over the need to use the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (or even if Hiroshima alone would have been enough) is extensive, and both sides make points. The fact is that the use of the atomic bomb did appear to shorten the war, although Japan had made settlement overtures. Current historical thinking questions many of the Allies' strategy on bombing: The carpet bombing of Tokyo, the dropping of the a-bomb, and most noteably the campaign of fireboming in Europe all have been reviewed as poor decisions morally and strategically.
Michael, your comment that Japan suffered lightly astounds me. The cost to Japan in lost lives, lost economic advantage and social destruction because of an ill considered war was huge. Do you realize that an entire generation of Japanese starved (1000s to death) in the years after the surrender? Japan didn't "pull out" of its economic despair until the early 1960s. I agree with you that this country will suffer the consequences of its current ill thought out, immoral war for a long time, but don't please dismiss the suffering of Japan at the same time. That would be wrong historically, and immoral.
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You know it is so easy to be an armchair historian huh? So easy to say what should have been done when you have no stake in anything.
I guess you could ask the "Comfort Women" who were taken against their will and used as prostitutes for the Japanese army whether Japan or the US were the evil ones. I wonder what they would tell you? To put a moral equivalence on Japan's actions and ours is pretty ridiculous.
And compare our actions in rebuilding Japan after it's defeat with Japan's refusal even now to even admit they horribly mistreated those poor Korean women that were forced to service the Japanese military. Yep, pretty even there too.
I will never feel guilty for dropping the bomb on Japan and ending a war which we did not start. As has been pointed out by myself and others, it saved many more lives than it took.
You can go ahead and wallow in your misplaced moral superiority, I will live in the real world.
Oh, by the way, Japan surrendered to us. We won the war. Get over it.
Edited by Estring
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