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Quote by: Deadeye  Some one here posted a thread that stated that Conservatives are stupid. |
I posted the thread about stupid people being Conservatives. And, you've admirably proved my--and John Stuart Mills'-point.
And now regarding #16.
16. We should not have dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan.
Far from true. We saved many millions of lives, both Japanese and American by dropping those two bombs and thereby winning and ending World War II.
Why did America have to drop two? Possibly, there was a rationale for Hiroshima. Nagasaki was a war crime.
As General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in his memoir, "In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives."
If you have any particular one of your points you'd like me to show you the stupidity of, just ask.
Regards
S.