Originally posted by Mini D
The A-Bomb did not have to be dropped. But it did bring the war to an end. What an obvious conflict this must be for liberal wheenies such as yourself.
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Yeah it did bring the war to an end. I just think humanity would have done better instead of settling for a C+ effort. Truth is using the bombs was cheaper than a blockade, and America was tired of the war. They were willing to kill tens of thousands of dehumanized enemies rather than withstand another year of war rations and far away relatives.
A blockade would have starved hundreds of thousands of people. An invasion would have caused untold damage to the country. Civilians on outlying islands had already committed mass suicides to avoid U.S. soldiers/occupation. 2 bombs hit 2 cities and the war was ended.
The starvation of hundreds of thousands would have fallen on the shoulders of their government and of the people themselves. They would not have lasted long before dissent seeded. Even some of their more honored soldiers were tired of the war and wanted it to end. Sakai himself was against kamikaze attacks and in his writing he mentioned that most of his group was in agreement. Not all Japanese were mindless fanatics as it is comonly believed. The emperor himself was anxious and emotionally defeated and was only holding on because of pressure from his generals.
The ironic thing... the Hiroshima and Nagasaki stories are much greater than the Tokyo firebombing stories. I'd even wager that if we'd just leveled the two towns using B-26s nobody would really even care and the war would have raged on.
I agree 100%, and I never argued against that. That does not make the a-bomb attacks more human or justifiable.
But... nukes are bad and no good can come from their use. Mmmmkay.
MiniD [/B]
Do you honestly believe that
good came from the atomic bomb attacks?
Look, I'll give you something; I know the foolishness in my arguement is that it has 20/20 hindsight as a backbone. I do *NOT* believe the a-bombs where thrown for the sake of evil, and that Americans where bad and the Japanese where poor lost souls who lost their way. I simply believe, from what I have studied coming from both sides that it should not have been so bad. Hell, one bomb would have been enough. Waiting three days back then in that moment was like throwing a nuke and waiting an hour for another one in the modern world. There was no way Japan could internally negotiate a surrender in less than a week back then. One day for news to reach the top level (how can you inmediately report that you just have been nuked into ashes?), two more day for the chain of comand to decide what to do with what just happened. They didnt even know that weapon existed; for all they knew it was fantastic bull****, they could not even describe what happened without refering to religious terms).
Anyways I'm gonna stop now because no one who does not want to agree will read this entirely. You can now attack me as an individual in order to save your Baby McRib calories in pondering what I just said and using a counter arguement.
