(September 11, 2012 at 9:19 pm)Shell B Wrote: I completely understand that what was done then was done under the duress of war. I even said that I don't think the extent of what they were doing was even remotely clear. We had just made the fucking things. To be fair, though, they could just as easily have dropped pesticide byproduct chemicals and had roughly the same result without the property damage and carnage.
Well. We could have dropped that, yes. But that wouldn't have had the same effect of trying to scare the Japanese into submission, which was the entire goal.
A quick rumination, here: It's amazing how easy it is for us to discuss this, without the consequence of "pushing the button" resting on our shoulders, isn't it? Can you imagine if we actually had to deal with the decision itself AND its consequences being on our heads?? That shit would break me like a twig.
