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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Germany didn't start ww1, they were blamed at the end because they were the strongest of the axis. Plus France wanted payback for thier humilation dureing the Franco, Prussian war barely 20 years before. The main point though is that that peace treaty had conditions set by the winners, not the loosers.
Yes, inforcement was severaly lacking, if Britain and France had acted the moment Germany started overstepping it's bounds back in the mid 30's it might have stoped the whole thing before it got rolling.
Ronin4hire; I don't really feel any need to justify the bombs, they were tools we used to win, same as we used flame throwers, fire bombs, battleships, tanks, land mines, machine guns. The only difference is the scale the bombs have in destruction, the speed at wich they can destroy and the relative ease it is to do so. They can do in seconds what it would normally take an army days to do.
Still, wether an army is used via artillery for days on end, a fleet of planes drop firebombs for three nights or one nuke, the end result is the same, wich is the intent from the begining. The only real difference is the numbers of your own troops you put at risk.
Let's face it, war isn't "moral" to begin with, once that line has been crossed you can kinda throw out "morality" as any type of basis for arguement. War is violence, death and destruction. So best to get it over with as fast as possible. General Lee himself declared "it is good that war is so terrible, or I fear we would become to fond of it."
Much truth there is in that, because as savage as world war 2 was, we were back at in not 5 years later in Korea. Then again in Vietnam 13 years after that. Considering how much everyone claims to hate war we humans certainly devote alot of time/blood and humainty fighting them.
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Thats certainly a different position than you took last time.
But I can respect that position.
It just annoys me when people try to justify such a terrible event.
You cant justify it... only understand it and feel sympathy for the victims.