Hopefully I will never hear a millennial complain about Hiroshima. Half of these mushy head liberals wouldn’t even be here if we hadn’t bombed Japan.
For years after WWII our government still had hundreds of thousands of hospital beds in storage. If it was necessary to invade Japan to end the war we would have had hundreds of thousands of our soldiers dead or wounded.
Good point.
I heard a couple years ago, liberal snarky comedian Jon Stewart say we should not have bombed Hiroshima. He said we should have dropped the bomb offshore to demonstrate its power, then tell the Japanese if they don’t surrender, the next one will be dropped on them.
To a lesser extent, we hear liberals of today bitch about the bombing of Dresden, the firebombings of Tokyo, and the bombing of Hamburg, as somehow being war crimes committed by the Allies during World War II. But these same liberals never mention that the Axis powers started World War II, and they are silent about atrocities committed by the Axis.
The military had so many extra purple hearts made for the anticipated invasion they didn’t have to reorder until after the Vietnam War. I think the first reorder after World War II was in 1975 and they still had many of the older ones when they reordered.
Unfortunately I’ve had the experience of millennials saying such things on the internet. They’re all about radical pacifism, unless you’re talking about conservatives.
I always feel that not only do I say exactly what you did about the situation, but considering how much these little imbeciles hate America, I actually start off by explaining how many JAPANESE lives were saved by those two bombs.
The Japanese were willing to fight and die to the last man, woman, and pre-teen child. Their civilians were prepared to become a fighting force, and the Japanese went by the Bushido code and didn’t care for the Geneva conventions.
We’re talking over 1,000,000 well-armed U.S. soldiers and Marines, with bombers loaded with incendiary bombs, against a force essentially armed with mostly knives, pitchforks, and other household and farming implements.
The very conservative estimate of Japanese deaths in a mainland invasion would be 2,000,000 - twice what Allied forces would suffer.
Once the mush heads explain how you’re wrong about the numbers, I then ask them the political and moral question:
If everything was the same on the timetable of creating the atomic bomb (which it would have been - we were creating it to use against Hitler), and Truman did NOT use it, but instead let an invasion go forward with millions of deaths, what would you think of Truman today?