Was the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki justified?

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No,Not at all. 26
Yes, It is. 17
I'm not sure what to think. 3
I don't care. 3
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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    It's easy to criticize in retrospect, but rarely is the right solution readily apparent when it's needed most.

    I've not read up too much on World War 2, but as I understand it the Americans were facing the loss of countless soldiers in taking the island nation or they could bomb them into capitulation at the cost of Japanese infrastructure and populace.

    Justified or not, it happened. I can see why they did it.

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    • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
      11 years ago

      This is a pretty good point.

      It's pretty easy to criticize like that... when one hasn't actually been faced with truly hard decisions in life.

      Kinda like when Junior starts telling Mom & Dad how to live their lives, when he's never even had to support himself or seen true hardship.

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  • Imposturously_yours
    11 years ago

    Nothing justifies the use of nukes. The U.S. has many monstrous and ugly bloodstains on their relatively short history.

    The funny fact is -the world seems to have a really short memory when it comes to Korea, Vietnam, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and many others "oups, we're really sorry for the mass murder 'n shit".

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    No. The Japanese should have been allowed to surrender six weeks early (as they wanted) rather than been kept at war for the purposes of being used as guinea pigs.

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    • Francophile22
      11 years ago

      Now that's a damned lie.

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        I'd have hoped so too.

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    Killing civillians to save your soldiers? Yeah, there's nothing morally reprehensible about that.

    I think I'm leaving a trail of sarcasm on the floor of this post.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    When the going gets tough
    And the stomachg acids flow
    The cold wind of conformity
    Is nipping at your nose
    When some trendy new atrocity
    Has brought you to your knees
    Come with us we'll sail the
    Seas of Cheese

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  • KnightNigelWellingtonXXI
    11 years ago

    Yeah, it's so easy to say no with 20/20 hindsight, but the Japanese wouldn't surrender. They had trained their populace to fight to the last man or woman and bombing those two cities would have been easier and quicker for the Americans.

    Signed,
    Knight Nigel Wellington XXI

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    To me, no. A lot of innocent people were killed in that event; men, women, and children who were just trying to live their lives and not hurt anyone, and to me, anytime innocent people are killed in the event, I have a hard time thinking it's right. Call me a hippie, but that's how I feel about the whole situation, and always have.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    No. Words can't describe how angry I am about this. It was a cowardly and rude thing to do, but I shouldn't be surprised as america has committed other atrocities in its "history".

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    • Francophile22
      11 years ago

      OK so then commit to another 5 million dead on the ground in hand-to-hand combat.

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        The "atrocities" I was thinking of were the things they did when the colonies and country as a whole were being built. (Massacring the Native Americans and stealing their land forcing them to live in reservations, Slavery, Being "immature" by dumping all of that good tea and refusing to be punished for it, etc.) Then, there are the thing they did in more recent history. (The Red Scare and "fighting" to prevent communism, sticking their damn noses in other countries's affairs, threatening war to get their way,etc!) All throughout history they have acted like they are"entitled" because they are "Americans". Truth is no one is 100% american unless they are native american. These fools that claim this seem to have no idea that their ancestors were immigrants. Then there's the sappy bullshit card that this country always pulls with their sob stories and "empowering words" like "freedom" "justice",etc. Back to their nukes, they caused so much destruction to the environment... Ugh! My country makes me sick! Forgive me if I went off on a tangent.

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