(February 2, 2017 at 11:48 am)Tres Leches Wrote:(February 2, 2017 at 9:40 am)A Theist Wrote: Unbelievable. No. We used nuclear weapons in the end because of Japan's acts of war. What did you even learn in History class? Kids in schools and in colleges these days are being indoctrinated instead of being educated.
Not just you, but also everyone else who jumps on the "Blame America First" bandwagon before looking at the history and the reasoning behind why the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Japan at the end of WWII. Why do you suppose that, then democratic president, Harry Truman, gave the final approval to drop Fat Man and Little Boy on the two Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Japan was a much different country than it is today in this post WWII era. It's ideology was nationalistic and militaristic. Their brutality was on par with Nazi Germany. Do some research, Japan's invasion of Manchuria, its invasion of the South Pacific Islands, the way that Japanese soldiers raped, murdered, brutalized, enslaved, and starved the citizens of the countries they invaded. How Japan also starved, murdered and tortured the allied POWs they captured. Research Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and how that after the fall of Mussolini's Italy and after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, the remaining axis power, Japan, refused to surrender and vowed to continue fighting. Japan was not a peaceful and innocent bystander in the second world war.
Whoa there, you misunderstood my post and twisted my words around lol.
I didn't twist your words around. The way you worded your response left me with the impression that you believed the U.S. was the aggressor who used nuclear weapons in an unprovoked attack against a helpless Japan 'as an act of war'. So you do know the reasoning behind Harry Truman's decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan, then?
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