Quote:
Originally posted by Strange Famous
It is a fact that Japan was beaten, and was trying to negoiate an acceptable surrender. This, even you agree to.
Dropping atomic weapons on Japan at a time they were trying to surrender did not save lives, it cost lives. Diplomacy would have ended the war then... dropping the bombs (to ensure that Japan surrendered totally to the US before Russia could grab the North Island) was an act of violence that resulted in many more deaths than would have occured if diplomacy was used,
As an example of violence ending violence, it is a false example, because in this case the wat would have been ended by diplomacy, the atomic weapons were merely a brutal exercise in violence with no obvious peaceful end.
|
You are of course welcome to that opinion.
BTW, I am starting a new thread, rather than to continue to hijack this one.