Posted on 08/06/2023 7:01:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Of course to prove their virtue every one of these military experts volunteered to be in the first wave on Japanese D Day right?
This is a pile of lies that were written by liars that hate America and certainly hate America’s middle and lower classes who would have had to storm the Japanese beaches and be killed to prove what wonderful people America’s elite were/are.
I read an excellent book titled: "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II", and I must say, the qualities that made Japan a most formidable and tenacious enemy in wartime were turned in on themselves in a postwar Japan to make them a most formidable and tenacious economic opponent.
In the book, it covered end-to-end just what your friend Toda-san meant when he said: "If you’re going to conquered by a foreign nation, it’s best to get beat by the Americans!"
To me, that reflects on why I love my country so much, and feel such great pain and anger to see it dragged down by its own people...and also, Toda-san's sentiment reflects (in my mind) most favorably on the Japanese themselves.
After such a war, I have always felt as if we were a most generous victor, and have always been impressed that honest Japanese, even if in only guarded and private moments, often seem to recognize that truth.
Source: The White House Years: Mandate for Change: 1953-1956: A Personal Account (New York: Doubleday, 1963), pp. 312-313.
Source: The White House Years: Mandate for Change: 1953-1956: A Personal Account (New York: Doubleday, 1963), pp. 312-313.
“Would anyone ask MacArthur his opinion of the war in Europe. Ike was wrong if serious.”
If you read the article, they also cited a quote from MacArthur.
My Dad was in the Phillipines and his 2 cousins were on ships headed for the invasion, after fighting for over a year.
I scanned the entire article and didn’t read a single reference to Okinawa, or even Iwo Jima. This is all fake and lies.
Bull$***. THEY attacked us FIRST.
I don’t believe these quotes.
Thousands of American boys fought and lost their lives or were wounded horribly and had their lives totally disrupted for ever by these maniacs and their buddies in Germany snd later Stalin and his successors.
They fought like demons to the death on foreign islands
AND WOULD HAVE FOUGHT HARDER IN JAPAN.
AFTER WHAT THESE SAVAGES DID IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA AND CHINA AND THE PHILLIPINES THEY HAVE NO VALID ARGUMENTS
THERE WERE A LOT OF INCINERATED GERMANS IN DRESDEN AND OTHER CITIES.
THEY HAVE STILL REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE OR APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR ATROCITIES
IF THE BOMBS SAVED AMERICAN LIVES I DON’T CARE IF IMPRESSING THAT OTHER MANIC STALIN WAS AN OBJECTIVE ALSO., I DON’T GIVE A DAMN.
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF REVISIONIST, ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-WESTERN HISTORIANS PUTTING OUT THIS BULLS*** WOKE GARBAGE.
Given the choice of one quick flash of light or months of starvation, brutal torture, disease, over-work in a Japanese prison camp, I’d choose the former ANY day. It was WAY more humane.
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The history of this leftist loon
I see. The guy who orchestrated the fire bombing of Tokyo that killed more than the atomic bombing was a secret anti-American sensative socialist hunny-bunny.
Well that settles it. Time to chuck the Constitution.
Revisionist history.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was needless.
Aside from whether or not the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to force complete Japanese surrender (I’m completely confident they were), the demonstration of what the weapons could do has prevented humanity slipping into an all out third world war for going on 80 years. A record Joe Biden is limping us toward ending.
May not have been necessary but great payback for Pearl Harbor and the treat of American POWs.
True... we hear it every August. AS IF Japan was innocently drawn into WWII.
They WERE given some very explicit an direct notifications about the bombings ...days ahead.
They chose to take their chances.
“After Nagasaki, they changed their mind.”
The timing might suggest it, but also the Russians were bearing down on Japan and that scared the Hell out of them.
Dropping atomic bombs on civilian populations was both morally bankrupt and completely unnecessary for one key reason:
After what we have experienced here in the U.S. over the last 3+ years, there is absolutely no reason to accept anything the government says at face value.
And that was as true in 1945 as it is today.
I was sort of a nut on WWII since the late 60’s. I did a lot of reading. I do think a lot of people are trying to rewrite history. It’s not that they are bad people. It’s really just that they need something to talk about. It gets clicks.
In a nutshell, using those bombs saved millions of lives on both sides and using two bombs sent a message to Russia that we had more than one, so back off.
Sure, there are infinite nuances, but that’s it in a nutshell.
Total bulls***. The atomic bombs saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese.
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