Thats how you feel after someone disagrees with you, now imagine suffering four years of atrocities against a seemingly (emphisis on seemingly) ideologically homogenous foe. Imagine seeing and hearing those who trusted you die in situations that you could prevent. Imagine what you feel now dragged out day after day, because then you might begin to understand what those who fought through this actually went through.heavymedicombo said:
dropping the bomb on japan? yes or no?
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If the Americans had invaded Japan, a lot of people would have died. much more than the A-Bombs killed. Street to street fighting would have been Brutal. And if the Soviet invaded.. it would be even worse. Dropping the bomb saved more lives any way you look at it.Kenko said:
It was absolutely the right choice, from any standpoint.
If the bomb had not been used, many tens of thousands more soldiers on both sides would have been killed, far more innocents would have died in the various battles than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the entire civilization of Japan would have been utterly ravaged by the war.
If the bomb had not been used, many tens of thousands more soldiers on both sides would have been killed, far more innocents would have died in the various battles than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the entire civilization of Japan would have been utterly ravaged by the war.
America was like yo dawg wanna go bomb those japense niggers g dawg and they were like yeee dawg then they killed like tons of people and they were like dat was cool wanna drop another one and he was like yeeeee dawg and then it happened the end /sarcasm
This is the only correct answer that anyone could say. I don't even need to look through the rest of the thread.Hosker said:
What America did was wrong, but they did it anyway. It is in the past. Nothing can change that now. We just have to accept that bad choices are made by those in high places.
then thats how you feel after someone misinterprets your (very) poorly worded statement, the point still stands.heavymedicombo said:
Even you are getting it wrong...Swollen Goat said:
Why even fight a war? It just causes more death... bombing civilians was wrong. Sending in forces to wage traditional warfare would also cause casualties.
Humans warring against each other is backwards. Yet we will need to be backwards to unite this backwater...
lets look at some statistics...
iwo jima was on of the pacific islands taken by the americans in ww2
american forces. 105000.
japanese defenders. 22000.
american casualties 32000, 7000 dead.
japanese casualties 21000, most dead.
planned invasion force of japan. 1.25 million
population of japan millions (if someone could clarify this number they would be thanked, does'nt make the point less valid).
massive casualties would of resulted
casualties of hiroshima. 75000.
casualties of nagasaki. 25000.
based on the iwo jima averages these add to about the same amount as just the allied casualties let alone the japanese casualties. dropping the bombs was the lesser of the two evils.
iwo jima was on of the pacific islands taken by the americans in ww2
american forces. 105000.
japanese defenders. 22000.
american casualties 32000, 7000 dead.
japanese casualties 21000, most dead.
planned invasion force of japan. 1.25 million
population of japan millions (if someone could clarify this number they would be thanked, does'nt make the point less valid).
massive casualties would of resulted
casualties of hiroshima. 75000.
casualties of nagasaki. 25000.
based on the iwo jima averages these add to about the same amount as just the allied casualties let alone the japanese casualties. dropping the bombs was the lesser of the two evils.
*Sigh*Swollen Goat said:
The reason I need to see no other posts, is because there is no good war, and if I read through, I'll just see loads of people going "Yeah!1!!1! Nuke those Japs!1!!!!1!" >.<
If I didn't have to see posts like that, I would happily read through it, but I have seen these threads before, and I know the sort of answers I will see.
If it makes you happy, I shall now go and read through all ten previous pages. But this is the sort of thread where you get an answer of one extreme or the other. It is hard to accept nicely when people say it is best to kill civilians. All deaths caused by war are a waste...
The major flaw with this is simple to identify... It is the Japanese Military who refused to stop fighting, so you dropped two bombs on two major cities, causing massive Civilian casualties rather than military.maddawg IAJI said:
Regardless of whether dropping the bombs was correct to do or not, the target of the bombs was certainly barbaric.