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So your original point is that the US has committed ethically worse war crimes than the Japanese has?
No one here is calling either country pure in their acts against other countries. However the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't ruthless in any way. It was a strategic move that had to be done to end a war that had been going on for nearly 7 years.
That's 7 years of killing, 7 years of lives lost, 7 years of homes never to be seen again, 7 years of tears that the world should never have seen. Yea the bombings were a huge sacrifice and a lot of innocent lives were lost. You can't deny it was a crucial point of stopping 7 years of constant bloodshed.
Everyone who's damning the US and glorifying Japan in this topic (mind you we seem to have gone a little bit away from if US forces should be in Japan or not) really needs to read up a little. It's getting fucking ridiculous.
Now people here are trying to claim the dropping of the bombs in 1944 as some horrible inexcusable act committed by the US government and claim that the US has done soooo many more horrible things over the course of history compared to other countries. Calling the US army ruthless, and full of rapist yanks. Utterly fucking ridiculous.
You're either purposely ignoring other countries wrong doings or you guys are legitimately ignorant. Did you know that the war the US played a key part in ending was basically started due to Japanese conflict? More importantly that conflict makes Nagasaki and Hiroshima look like mercy killing in comparison.
A few months following the Second Sino-Japanese War (Wasn't just Germany) here's what the pure innocent Japanese army was up to. Not pretty, huh? Don't read it if you're one of those sensitive types.
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So you are justifying their actions. I hope you are not from US because this is the most cliched response from their public if such a topic ever turns up. This is no different from the way they acted or are acting in Afghanistan and Iraq. They bomed the hell out of these countries, killing thousands upon thousands of civilians for their own agendas. If you think that this is justified then I am sorry I think you justify blood-shed at that level. I have nothing more to say.