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Quote by: sdbest  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.
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IKE was a nice fella wasn't he. Fact is we had just finished a very bloody fight on Okinawa. The Japanese had no intention of surrending until after we dropped the two nukes.
I have talked to Japanese who were in Japan then. One told me that his teacher was teaching the kids how to hang themselves. They were told that the Marines ate children. Civilians were being armed. The Japanese were holding back their aircraft waiting for massive kamikaze attacks. I have toured the shortline gun emplacements set up in Japan. The Japanese were not planning to surrender and we were staging for our invasion, which would have been very bloody.