(March 13, 2016 at 8:21 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: Regarding the use of atomic bombs against Japan:
Both cities were the military capitals of their prefects. Hiroshima had nearly 90,000 soldiers in the city. The Minister of War had declared that all adult or nearly adult Japanese were soldiers, militarizing most of the population of each city. Both cities were centers of war material production.
And it was at Hiroshima Bay that Yamamoto anchored his flagship, Nagato, and waited for the results of his pet project, the raid on Pearl Harbor. Kismet this!
My X wife is Japanese, her now deceased grandfather served for Japan in WW2. And again, what we did with those bombings sucked and we did murder our fellow human beings. There still are lives behind our enemies. But even having said that, Japan still is embarrassed by their shacking up with Hitler. And while it was horrible, it did shorten the war, and it was also used as a message to the Soviet Union to say "Hey look what we have", which was part of it.
It still remains that humans are tribal and tribalism is local. I think the more humans understand this and the more we understand we are NOT a separate species the more we can reduce conflicts.
War is hell so if humans want to avoid it it is vital to understand we are not a separate species.
