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Originally Posted by GoNative
The Nanking massacre is only one of thousands of equally appalling events that the Japanese were responsible for. You're right Wings most people, especially the little crowd of weaboos out there, have no idea whatsoever what went on during the Japanese invasion and occupation of Asia. No idea how many people they killed and the incredible suffering they created for those they didn't.
I'm not trying to make out the atomic bombs weren't horrific. Of course they were. But I think it's very hard to say that the bombs were unjustifiable. The allied powers had already lost millions of men in the war in Europe and Asia. The prospect of a protracted war up through onto the Japanese mainland would have been somewhat horrifying and incredibly bloody. Hard to say what any of us would have decided to do when offered a possible solution that would save 100's of thousands of lives of the soldiers we were responsible for.
The fact that a second bomb needed to be dropped says more to me about the ridiculous leadership the Japanese people had to endure during that dark period than anything about how terrible the Americans were.
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*Sigh* Here we go again. (Sorry.. but this topic always seems to raise it's head).
The dropping of the second bomb or even the first bomb wasn't needed. Historians that specialize in the subject point to a president eager to test the bomb on a civilian population. Who even defied his own intelligence agencies that claimed the Japanese were on the verge of surrender and that there was internal conflict in the government as early as 1944 as well as numerous attempts to surrender.
Also comparing the dropping of the bombs to Japanese atrocities is going by the flawed logic that 2 wrongs make a right.
The logical conclusion is that the Japanese atrocities were appalling AND the dropping of the atomic bombs (and the firebombings that preceded them which killed more civilians) were appalling.
Was Hiroshima Necessary?