Mass murder is never right. Just BC we were in the winning side is not an excuse for not holding war crimes.
Agree, good thing that wasn't what this was. Btw between the second bomb and surrender, the USAAF had an 800 plane B-29 raid, the USN was shelling coastal installations and running air ops all over Japan. The history is there, see it with the eyes of the time, not present day ones.
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were cities with military/industrial targets, only fairly recent advances have allowed us to neutralize those types of targets while minimizing collateral damage. Would it have been more palatable for more airmen to have died salving your conscience? I wonder if your prospective might change if it had been you looking through the bomb/gun sight, trying not to be the last American to get killed while we negotiate with fanatics to end the war that was lost but only one side saw it that way.
Mass murder is never right.
'Mass murder'? Says a man from the safety of distance and history with no prospective of the latter or regard for the men who delivered his present to him.
“Mass murder is never right. Just BC we were in the winning side is not an excuse for not holding war crimes.”
As far as I can tell war IS mass murder. Slaughter. Butchery. Killing is killing.