RE: Hiroshima 70 years ago
August 8, 2015 at 6:30 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2015 at 6:32 am by bennyboy.)
(August 8, 2015 at 12:02 am)Shinagami Wrote: The bomb wasn't needed. It was used to see how it would work and to intimidate the Soviets from advancing further south. The claim that more civilians would have died in a ground invasion is pure speculation. But even forgetting all that, it's disgusting that Americans can't honor the innocent people killed in Hiroshima and always launch into some lengthy defense of the bomb. Even conflating Pearl Harbor, a military target, with Hiroshima, a city with little if any strategic importance.
Honor them?
What, like the Japanese honor Korean victims? Like they honor the comfort women from all over Asia (many of whom were in their early teens)?
No. . . you mean honor as in how the Japanese PM and other government members keep visiting the shrines of Japanese war criminals, even those known to be directly responsible for child rape and the deliberate wholesale slaughter of Chinese civilians.
Look. . . Japan was a fucking evil nation, paid heavily for that fucking evil, and now are ALMOST okay. . . except for the part about crying like they're victims and demanding honor that they've never been willing to give others. Be like Germany-- accept history for what it is, and let it go.
And tell me. . . how is Pearl Harbor a military target for two countries AT PEACE? Is that how an honorable people declare war? By striking a peaceful nation in the early hours of the morning? No, it's tricky and cowardly, and based on modern diplomacy, I'd say very little has changed.
