Posted on 08/08/2020 9:47:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No.
Millions of lives have been spared in the ensuing years as war has been fought conventionally and today, with so much precision that Dresden isn’t going to happen again.
No.
Liberal Catholics always use the SEAMLESS GARMENT argument and say we were wrong to drop the bomb....They expect everyone to play war with rubber swords and water pistols....
In the 8th Grade I had to write a history paper on whether we should have dropped the bomb or not. So I figured I would ask my WW2 veteran Dad what he thought. He said go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and tell him if I like what I saw or not. Summed it up for me. He had his orders to head to the Pacific as his Army assignment in the Caribbean (Battle if the Atlantic w/ Unitas and convoys) was over. So his logic was with invasion of Japan, I would not exist.
My uncle was on a Navy carrier in the Pacific preparing for the invasion of Japan. My father was a Naval pilot in the Atlantic awaiting orders to be redeployed. They and millions of other American soldiers, sailors, marines, and their families would wonder why anyone is even asking such a stupid question.
Indeed, they chose not to attack during that period. But Stalin did pledge to attack within 90 days after VE day. August 8th was the expiration of that 90 day period.
One of the funniest dinner conversations was when my daughter was in high school and they were studying WWII. The teacher was telling them about the Hiroshima bomb, and how it wasn’t necessary.
My mother in law was living with us. He brother lost a leg in the war.
She started off and went on for about 15 minutes about life in 1945. She ended with something along the lines of, “Your teacher only knows what they read in books. I was here. I lived through it. Who are you going to believe? It’s really easy to judge things after the fact.”
I didn’t laugh out loud...but it was not something I ever expected from this quiet old woman.
If not for the bomb,there’s a good chance I would never have been born.
In past years I used to have some foreign students stay with me as I live near NYC. They had been here in the US as exchange students and were near NYC for that last weekend for the fun of visiting there.
I always took them on the Circle Line Tour -— a fun boat ride that circles NYC. The tour starts near the USS Intrepid which had been hit by many kamikazi planes during the war One time I had a couple of Japanese girls with me and I explained that the guide would mention the Intrepid and the kamikazis planes, but not to take offense —— it was just what happens during war. One of the girls said -— “that’s OK -— we’ve forgiven you.” I was a bit stunned at that!
I pretty much equate people who say we shouldn’t have nuked Japan to those who say we never went to the moon. They know they’re dead wrong, on both counts, but they need attention, so this is their way of crying out for it. In other words, they deserve our pity, not our time.
By the way, there’s always the implication in these (fake) debates that if we didn’t nuke Japan, then nukes would have disappeared from the planet. Somehow I don’t think that would have been the case. Now if we hadn’t developed nukes during WW2, then someone would have, eventually, as the theory all pointed to their viability. Which country?...maybe us, maybe the Soviets, maybe even the Chinese. If we want to go further back in time so that nukes weren’t here today, we’d have delete Einstein, the Curies, and probably some of the geniuses from the early 20th Century...and then delete later geniuses like Feynman.
Actor Tom Hanks said we attacked Japan because we are racists.
If a tree falls in the forest...
The better question would be: Being in possession of such a potent weapon how could we begin to justify to certain death of as many as 1 million American and Allied soldiers sailors and Airmen to save Japanese in August of 1945? The Japanese should have thought about saving themselves sooner than they did. Not using the bombs and opting for an amphibious assault would have been a cowardly waist of innocent lives to save lives not deserving of consideration from us. Sorry but that is the truth. The Japanese never dreamed of how the war would end when they started it, that’s on them.
No.
Curtis LeMay's B-29 crews were superheating Japanese cities for months before they were provided the means to do it with a smaller carbon footprint.
If there were any moral objections to targeting Japanese population centers, they would have been raised long before August of 1945. (If they were raised, they were presumably found lacking.)
Yeah, these are the same weasels that are pulling down statues to men that had the guts to walk into rifled musket fire.
Nope.
And most people don’t know that the Manhattan Project scientists didn’t know anything about fallout and radiation effects either. They thought it was just a massive bomb. The first scientist, Harry Daghlian, that died from radiation poisoning died in September 1945.
My dad fought in North Africa and Italy. He was wounded at Anzio in May 1944 and sent back to the States. In 1945 he was told to report to duty for the invasion of Japan. He was mustered out after the bomb was dropped. There was a 50/50 chance that I would not have been born.
He went to school on the GI bill and worked in a state health lab. In the 1950’s I remember seeing half of the men my dad worked with had war injuries. They all shared their stories with each other but no one else.
Thank you Harry!!!!!!
No more immoral than Kamikaze raid on Perl Harbor.
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