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Originally Posted by IamKira
I think both sides are justified. Japan attacked us because of their current situation with us and the global power struggle. When they attacked us, It was justified for us to attack back. We used the Fat Man and Little Boy bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring our fight over there to a quick end. Casualtie on our side would have escalated had we opted for the full scale invasion. In the end, I do not feel the need to assign blame to anyone. I feel that everyone was in the right as well as the wrong.
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The usa was not justified in bombing toukyou, nagasaki, or hiroshima...
If they had droped the bombs on areas of Japan that HAD HIGH MILITARY ACTIVITY OR WHERE LEADERS WHERE then I can see it being justified however it was on civilians...many lives lost who were just about all civilians. At least Japan had the decency to Attack where the American military ships and the American military base in the area. Was it justified? NO!!! Nothing was justified for this war.
Japan attacked American military units and personal. America just went and bombed hundred of thousands of civilians... Basically on top of a catholic church...oh yes many military operations going on inside of the biggest catholic (or was it christian) church in Asia.
For hell ships in japanese war crime they where POW'S. Its fair game...not to sound cruel but at least they arn't hunting down and killing American civilians.
THATS NOT EVEN A WAR CRIME! Its a war...kill the enemy...the enemy is not the mass of the people the enemy is the army of the oposition.
We could also sit here and list American war crimes. Chinese war crimes but where does it get us?
Oh quick question.
Did the Japanese war crimes effect millions of people for generations?