Why I'm not a terrorist

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You know what Atlas, GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!

Thank you. But I don't want to touch my prostate gland in the meanwhile. My ass is....full of shit in the meanwhile.
I mentioned 2 other factions that carried on terrorism: the Jewish Sicarii and the Muslim Ottoman Pashas.

Listen, I'll respect your viewpoint as well as anybody else's but you have to make a case for it if you're going to make an inflammatory remark like that.

What would you have had the U.S. government do in WWII? The Japanese attacked US, remember? They had lost the war at the point but they were NOT willing to agree to any terms of surrender at that point without such a dramatic event such as the nuclear attacks. I'll fully admit that those attacks were a human tragedy but the situation had been researched. If we were forced to attack the Japanese homeland in the conventional way in order to bring a close to the war, the body count would have been far worse. Look it up. What were we to do?

I'm not a fan of US (or any other kind of imperialism). Perhaps the US could have avoided the war in the first place with better behavior. History isn't my subject but as far far as I know, the Japanese of that era were evil bastards. I think we all needed to improve and still need to improve. But the Japanese brought their fate down upon themselves. The cost was high but they learned from their mistakes quite well. They rose again and this time became one of the most prominent and respected powers on the planet for peace.

When ISIS blows up a location in the west, they make the same generalization you made in the bold part.
They generalize too; and take every westerner for the sins of the U.S army.

Because the U.S army bombed a neighborhood in Iraq; ISIS beheads a westerner, and accuse ALL WESTERNERS of being the American pilot that carried on the neighborhood bombing.

That is terrorism in a nutshell.

The Japanese army was evil, the Japanese army ALONE needed to be nuked. Not the civilians of Nagazaki and Hiroshima.
What is the sin of Japanese infants? do you claim that every bombed infant made their choice; or were even conscious and mature mentally at the time of bombing?

Your standards for definition are soaked in nationalism with all due respect. You don't take humans for their own personal deeds; you take humans for the deeds of others. That is called "double standards". With all due respect.

For starters, it's the Japanese MILITARY - not Army. "Army", is NOT a generic replacement for, "Military." Army is a specific type of military (ground pounders, infantry).

Yes, you can make a case that it was the Japanese military that was evil in WWII. Those military members were drawn from the general population, though. The general consensuses among the population was that they were a superior race.

Most notably, you ignored the point that the US studied the option of invading the Japanese mainland in the conventional way and concluded that it would be a blood bath which far exceeded the body count of ending the war by bombing major cities. Even then, we COULD have just as easily dropped Little Boy or Fat Man on Tokyo which would have been vastly more devastating. We didn't. We took the option which we believed would end the war with the least amount of casualties.

Listen, I'm far more attached to the human race as a whole than to any nationalistic state - especially now that my fellow idiots have elected a bloviating ignoramus as President of this country. It's embarrassing. But I'm not going to lie down and accept your horseshit that our bombing of Japanese cities during WWII was terrorism. That claim is fucking HORSESHIT!

This time, don't ignore the point that we studied the option of ending the war in the conventional way and concluded that it would be more bloody than doing what we did. We were warred upon by another nation and we ended it in a way that was as merciful as we knew how. Any other option than the one we took would have resulted in a higher body count. So once again, I invite you to attempt what is admittedly anatomically impossible.

I'm no mindless patriot. My aleigence is to humanity. But I will not sit still while you make a bogus claim that my government engaged in terrorism in WWII. We were attacked by a foreign power and responded in the most merciful way we knew how. We could have annihilated the Japanese and every other country on the planet. We were the only country with nuclear technology at that time. We could have ruled over the world with the an iron fist if we had wanted to but we didn't. So show some respect.