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Originally Posted by GoNative
The Japanese would have bombed US cities if they had the capability. They bombed enough cities throughout Asia and slaughtered millions of civilians in their time there.
Plus this whole judement based on civilian targets it's not really accepting that during WWII civilian targets were generally considered legitimate targets. In Europe and the Pacific wars both axis and allied forces targeted civilian targets all the time. Carpet bombing of German cities wasn't just going after strategic targets!
Still you can't seem to see past one strategic attack on the US that had them enter the war and the dropping of atomic weapons. It's seems this is about the only knowledge of the war you have...sad really.
You seem to believe that the dropping of the bombs were purely in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbour. You do realise there was 4 years of intense and bloody fighting between the two events?
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Is it not true that it was not until
after the a-bombs had been dropped on Japan that the treaty and new rules regarding bombing civilian areas were finalised?
Many people think that is was simple tit-for-tat, and on a place such a JF where you get lots of people who think zomg Japan and everything about it is the best ever (^_^) will defend anything to do with Japan to the nth degree without any true reasoning. Often they find the easiest way to do this to attack another nation, such as one that seems to have let them down personally.