RE: The Nuking of Japan
September 14, 2012 at 4:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2012 at 4:43 am by Shell B.)
(September 14, 2012 at 2:04 am)greneknight Wrote: I think America has always viewed things from a global perspective. The nuclear bombs were not a mere retaliation of Pearl Harbour. They were intended to stop Japan in the face of its crimes against humanity committed all over Asia. That was one humanitarian factor that America must have considered. And it wasn't wrong. There's a bigger picture than merely the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Sorry, you're wrong. The United States was a separatist nation before World War II. We were only involved in World War I for a matter of months. Between then and World War II we weren't involved militarily. Pearl Harbor was really an excuse to do what we were going to do anyway and it didn't have anything to do with the violence, sadly. We had invested interest in China. If Japan kept it up, we lost money. We demanded they leave. They agreed to a meeting. We showed them up and stop trading with them. They attacked Pearl Harbor. I hate to be an asshole, but I don't think crimes against humanity had fuckall to do with the decision. If that were the case, we would have been in the European Theater years before we showed up. It was about money. We weren't losing any until Japan started pushing our buttons.
