[Discussion] Why did the US drop the atomic bombs on Japan?( Long )

[Aim64C]

how many civil casualties died that day? U.S army couldn't win war fair and square on the land.. they think that it's revenge over PH... but PH was a military base.. and I hear people still laughing how Americans cry over it..faceplam

That's because the Japanese had no distinction between military and civilian. Everyone was a servant of the empire (to some degree or another), and enough of them carried out their duty to the empire to fight its enemies regardless of the circumstances.

Women would put broken glass or razor blades in their vaginas and prostitute themselves out to American soliders as they came through (granted - anyone who accepts that invitation kind of has it coming). Food and water stocks left behind would be poisoned, entire populations would commit suicide (because the Empire had spred the belief that we would imprison them and make them wish they were dead).

There is no such thing as "fair and square" in warfare. The Japanese were more in tune with this truth than we were. You take any advantage you have and exploit it to its fullest. For Japan - that was getting every person they could to fight to the bitter end. Man, woman, child... civilian, military, expatriot... didn't matter - so long as they were killing Americans.

Such is war. I hold no bitter feelings over it. They were playing the same game we were, just not restricting themselves to the same moral concepts we try to vexingly employ in warfare.

 

[Vegeta]

and now..they make the best TV's and video games eva!!!!!!

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[Wang]

I didn't read that shiz, but the answer is: to send a loud message to Japan

 

[Vegeta]

How could you show true U.S nature in one picture?


something like this perhaps

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What country are you from, so I can make a sig disrespecting your flag as well, douchebag

 

[Parrish]

I sense Tension.

 

[Vegeta]

I sense Tension.

No, Grim just likes to bash America anytime he can like he lives in some magical place where Governments don't do stupid things and people don't get judged by what their Government does or doesn't do. I take offense to his sig, it's disrespectful.

 

[~WastelandSociety~]

It was because the battle was too bloody and seem it will to never end.
If they try to land on japan,their people would even fight to the death.
The leader and most of he's people didn't want to give up.


The US didn't want to drop the bomb at first and thought they will try to send troops to japan but that proved that even more lives will be lost on both sides.

So they had no choice but to end the war by fear.

No, Grim just likes to bash America anytime he can like he lives in some magical place where Governments don't do stupid things and people don't get judged by what their Government does or doesn't do. I take offense to his sig, it's disrespectful.

Yeah,Grim is a weird one at that.

how many civil casualties died that day? U.S army couldn't win war fair and square on the land.. they think that it's revenge over PH... but PH was a military base.. and I hear people still laughing how Americans cry over it..faceplam

Yeah,and the Jap can't start a war fair and square either.
Seeing civilians died as well during the Pearl Harbor attack (plus they attack by air not by land like you stated to be "fair and square") .
All because they got upset cause the US didn't want to help them.


Also don't get me started with what Japanese Imperial Army would do to their own people (talk about fair and square ).

 

[Aim64C]

Let's not forget how Japan operated:

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I mean - America has been on the side of some not-so-great things... but to focus on that when other countries were doing far worse.... is just naive.

If you want to look for reasons to hate people - there will always be reasons found in the history books. I've been to Japan a few times (granted, they were brief), and have found their people to generally be a pleasure to be around. The people of today are the people of today - the people of that time period were the people of that time period... and of them - not all of them were "people of the empire" who believed their empire was acting appropriately.

History is important to know for many reasons - but it is nothing that should be used to judge others. That's a fallacy used to exploit the feeble of mind into voluntary slavery.

 

[BREAKD]

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Could you perhaps organize it a bit better?

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