Considering how many Americans would have been killed in an invasion of Japan, NOT using the Atom Bomb would have been a war crime. We killed more Japanese with firebombing than with the atom bomb, but Stewart probably hasn’t read enough history to even be aware of it.
Jon Stewart is an idiot!
If the bomb had not been dropped, I simply wouldn’t be here. My parents never would have met and maybe my father wouldn’t have come home alive. Probably the same for a lot of folks who had a parent or grandparent fighting in the PTO.
Hey Jon! I spent almost ten years and over 700 days on Alert in the missile capsules.
There are men sitting underground right now doing what I did, protecting us as we write.
What do you call us?
You, Jon, are a putz!
Liberal Guilt 101
`I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me’
John, Mick,
I was on the playground, Wilshire Elementary,
San Antonio, playing tetherball—honest Injun!
TD
I seem to recall the US Army predicted the conquest of the Japanese homeland would cost 1 million US casualties and 10 million Japanese casualties.
Horrible as the atom bomb was, it saved far more lives than it cost. Liberals don’t understand that some wars are justified. The only way to fight a war is to fight hard and fight to win. Going half-assed will just drag it out and cost more lives on both sides.
Japan started the fight, and we finished it.
If the bomb had not gone off my dad would have parachuted into Japan. He survived a lot in the Europeon theater but I don’t think he would have survived the Japanese invasion.
Also I think a lot more Japanese would have died in a land invasion.
MacArthur was a war criminal for being such an arrogant asshat and getting his troops killed.
Sonce when does this little jerks opinion deserve any attention?
I only watch that worthless piece of sh!t Jon Lebowitz or whatever his name is so I can change the channel the instant he starts spewing Obamama’s talking points. So that ends up being about 3 seconds in...
I can’t even describe how much I hate that guy.
Hey Jonnie, why don’t you take a stroll down main street in Iran!
Less than five hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, U.S. naval leaders reluctantly chose to pursue a form of warfare they despised - targeting not only Japanese military assets but also civilian-operated fishing trawlers, freighters, and tankers. The move to unrestricted submarine warfare represented a major change in the longstanding American adherence to the classic doctrine of ‘freedom of the seas,’ under which commercial vessels were held to have the right to navigate the oceans without threat of attack. This dramatic about-face in naval policy, potentially as controversial as the decision to use the atomic bomb, has never been seriously challenged and, until now, closely examined. Holwitt combed archival sources from the National Archives, the Naval Historical Center, the Naval War College, Yale University, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in order to reconstruct the development of both the U.S. submarine fleet and the policies for its use during World War II. As he shows in this meticulously researched book, the U.S. move to launch unrestricted air and submarine warfare against Japan was illegal. “Execute Against Japan” offers a new understanding of U.S. military policy during World War II. This thoughtful analysis will be a vital resource for military and maritime historians and professionals, as well as students of World War II.
http://www.amazon.com/Execute-Against-Japan-Unrestricted-Williams-Ford/dp/1603440836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241127824&sr=1-1
Are these people insane or what?