[khnyny]

Without the bomb, it was estimated that we would have lost another 500,000 men and women. It’s sad but I believe it was necessary.

I believe you are correct in your statement. In the end, it was a cost benefit analysis.

It was a horrible tragedy. The genie was out of the bottle, forevermore. That being said, the world should resent the Japanese for forcing this absurd, horrendous, solution.

[the invisib1e hand]

That being said, the world should resent the Japanese for forcing this absurd, horrendous, solution.

You want me to resent the Japanese (who love America, incidentally -- at least the ones that come here in droves snapping pictures and going to the Statue of Liberty) because of something that happened 60 years ago?

I'd prefer to keep my real enemies in my sights.