BigGov

Horrible mistake?

Imagine D-Day.

Imagine D-Day times 10. That's a mainland attack on Japan. The Japanese were fighting to the death everywhere they were, there is no reason to believe their homeland would be any different.

Mistake? No. Cutting your losses is more like it.

According to eple's logic, we shouldn't have harmed anyone. No, America should have just rolled over and let Japan kill us. That is your opinion right? If not, then please explain what America was to do, let this technolical genius in Japan just sit there and build while we sit around and wait for them to surrender?

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One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink but then held it out over the beer and yelled "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT, YOU BASTARD!"

eple

No, according to my logic, nuking cilvilians is never accepable. That is my fucking logic now counter that if you dare.

BigGov

Counter if I dare? Oohhh, ok.

Lets go door to door and kill everything that moves until the enemy surrenders.

Well, maybe not that extreme, probably anyone who you think could be a soldier in a 1/10th of a second judgement.

Oh, and that doesn't even count the American soldiers deaths, which would have definately been higher than 40,000.

That is MY fucking logic now counter that if you dare.

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One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink but then held it out over the beer and yelled "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT, YOU BASTARD!"

eple

So you defend nuking two port cities, killing mostly nothing but innocent people. I really can't accept that. It is opinions like these that make sure horrible things like these will always repeat itself. If Hitler won the war, there would probably be people sitting around right now defending to use of consentration camps one way or another.

Your country did something unacceptible. Sure, a real attack would create great causalties, but the war was technically over, and as mentioned earlier in the thread, there were other options aviable besides mutual destrucion. In a real attack, the people being killed would be military as well, atleast to a greater degree, not 99% innocent civilians who just happened to be born in the country, and thus deserved to die to "set an example".

BigGov

Ok, lets use an atomic bomb, or carpet bomb all of Japan. There's a major difference?

eple, do you know why the two cities were chosen?

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One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink but then held it out over the beer and yelled "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT, YOU BASTARD!"

eple

No, please do tell.

Peetster

We're done here.