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Quote by: Praxius  They attacked Pearl Harbor.... last I checked that was a military target... two cities are not. And you guys get two buildings smacked around by some planes, loose a couple thousand as well, in one city, and you guys seem to forget how you guys justified something twice as worse.
Perspective I suppose. *shrugs* |
Pearl Harbor was a military target but not just men in uniform died. Aid and hospital workers as well as civilians on base.
The attack on cities has nothing to do with pearl harbor. The way to end a war is to destroy the nations ability to build its military. Japan based all its infastructure inside cities.
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Quote by: Praxius How about level of suffering due to radiation? Bombing them with bombs would have been more humaine imo.
Possibly the first example of mass terrorism.... do what we say or we kill and mutate your people in a way you can't do anything about.
Sure.... they were crazy fighters... but at least they knew how to fight with a little honor. Oh and attacking Pearl Harbor during the period of a World War I don't believe constitutes as a suprise attack in the sense I believe most try to potray it as..... which was cheap..... but if they look at the methods, it was more of a dumb Idea then anything. |
So the brutal abuse of prisoners, treatment of women and children in occupied zones, and their suicide fliers were all honorable fighting methods?
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Quote by: Praxius That has always been the justification... but to me, it would have been more logical and more decent if the targets were large military targets.... Not Civilians trying to live a normal life in an already horrible time.
In my opinion the two bombs were one of the top cowardly and horrific acts of the war. Sure everybody is hunky dory that the war ended... but the method expressed the same lack of compassion for humanity as the Nazis and their concentration camps.
If he can sleep well at night knowing he killed 140,000 odd Japanese civilians, who are we to argue? |
Japan based its military related industry inside crowded cities. Mass death was a side effect that could not be avoided. If we had just bombed the buildings, the fires would have spread quickly and created firestorms killing mass numbers of people. The japanese would have suffered horrible losses no matter how we tackled dealing with the Japanese mainland.
War is never pretty. Every watch Star Trek? The episode where they come across a planet ungulfed in a old standing war where there is no real fighting, just computer calculations?
If we take away all the blood and death and try to make conflict pretty what is there to make us not want to go to war again?