My take on this is that the U.S. should have told Japan they developed a nuke that would wipe out a city, then let them decide their own fate. I'm all for retaliation after the invasion of Pearl Harbor, even if that means nuking them, but they should have made aware of how extreme the circumstances were before they wiped out a couple hundred thousand lives. Innocent civilians died, yes, cry me a fucking river, it wasn't all troops that died in Pearl Harbor you know, a shitload of civilians died during the invasion, but not a damn one of you mentioned that in your retard anti-american posts. And yes, it is anti-american for that exact reason.
2-0-Sixx said:
Not only did the U.S punish innocent Japanese civillians during the war, they punished future generations as well.
The Japanese didn't punish any U.S. civilians during the war? (oops!)
2-0-Sixx said:
They were well aware of the effects the bomb would have.
I'm sure they were fully aware of the damage it would do to the country once detonated. I believe the purpose of it was to cause as much destruction as possible, just like the Japanese did to Pearl Harbor (which you have not mentioned in this thread). I would however, like to see proof that they knew people would be dying of cancer over 50 years later.
YOuNg WiNo said:
thats the dumbest shit ive heard , truman could of negociated with them ,at the end of the war that was japans main reason for staying in the war so the USA would negociate with them the mentality of the japaneese was not to surrender , if the US government said okay we wanna stop fighting lets talk, the war would of ended.
He could have negotiated with them?! They attacked without notice, and they did so to expand their territory, not because they wanted to negotiate. They wanted to take over Hawaii and make it a part of their country, fuck everything else. As far as I am concerned, this entire war was over territory. Germany wanted to take over the world, Japan wanted parts of the U.S.
miggidy said:
I think droppin those two H-bombs was the biggest "Bitch Move" in the history of humanity.
How is that so? On the one hand you have Japan who attacked our soil killing civilians without warning. On the other hand, you have the United States, who in defense of it's own land, sent a message to Japan--and if my memory serves me correctly--which explicitly stated, "surrender now or suffer complete and utter destruction". Japan said fuck off, and 80,000 died. We sent another message and got the same reply. Another, what, 70,000 dead? After that bomb they gave up. How are you going to label this the biggest bitch move when:
1. It was in self defense.
2. They were warned of the consequences.
Seems to me the biggest bitch move in history was either when Japan invaded Pearl Harbor or when those Saudi's slammed planes into the WTC towers.
miggidy said:
The irony behind this is that America has been paranoid of being attacked by nukes ever since.
Lets not forget that what goes around comes around.
It's only a matter of time before our past comes back to haunt us.... Call this a prophecy, a guess, or prediction. What ever floats your boat, but it's only a matter of time before it happens....
BAH. The same can be said for half the worlds nations.
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