RE: The Nuking of Japan
September 11, 2012 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2012 at 9:37 pm by Shell B.)
CoH, yep. Strawman, though. Sorry, dude. I never said the Japanese were being good guys. In fact, their propaganda was the reason why every single civilian committed suicide in Saipan rather than surrender to the United States. They even threw their babies off of the cliff. I believe it was all of them, but I do know it was at least most of them. They ran and killed themselves.
Yes, they were crazed. They were also really effective. The bottom line is that their generals were not stupid. Pearl Harbor alone is enough to show this.
(September 11, 2012 at 9:34 pm)jonb Wrote: Everything Shel B says is right, but it does not take into account the psychology of the Japanese leaders, who were in some part preparing themselves for a heroic fight to the death.
Any logical person would make decisions as Shel B states, but the Japanese leadership were not acting normally, I could put out many instances of this but what that comes foremost to my mind is that they refused to protect their own merchant ships because these were less important than the military even though it meant they ran out of supplies, or that there were more aeroplanes defending iwo jima than Britain had in the battle of Britain, but they chose to throw them away in suicide attacks.
Yes, they were crazed. They were also really effective. The bottom line is that their generals were not stupid. Pearl Harbor alone is enough to show this.
