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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Will, read a bit more about the brutality of the Filipinos in the hands of the Japanese. One person being ripped in two by machine gun fire who is an enlisted serviceman is hardly equal to whole civilian villages being raped and maimed.
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So? The Nazis surrendered and guess what? We stopped bombing them. Then we had Nuremberg to punish war criminals. Japan tries to surrender and we bomb them for months and then nuke them for good measure.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
As far as the enslaved Roman tale, that's a great tale. I'm sure you have some sort of telling of it in some fashion, book or manuscript? I have living members of the family and books authored and published by family members.
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There's verified evidence from several sources, actually. But that has nothing to do with anything.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
You may want to find justice in a courtroom. Other members of my family wanted more than just war reparations for the atrocities from the Japanese.
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Vengeance is natural, but that doesn't make it right. And this still has absolutely nothing to do with anything. The discussion is about the use of nuclear weapons being necessary or not, and it clearly wasn't.