Hiroshima and Nagasaki

With the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. DIRECTLY targeted civilians.  They also directly targeted civilians with the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden.  The Japanese and German GOVERNMENTS committed many atrocities, but that in no way makes it moral or right for the U.S. to murder civilians in those countries.

You can make all the arguments you want about how murdering these civilians brought an early end to the war.  This does not change the fact that civilian men, women, and children were murdered.  When other people do this, we call them terrorists.  That label applies equally here.

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The U.S. condemns terrorism because it is the direct targeting and murder of innocent civilians.  Yet that is exactly what the 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden, did.  Hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered.

And come on, the Japanese were already on the verge of surrendering, especially after the first atomic bomb.  Dropping the second bomb is just pure malice.  If the U.S. had lost the war, then it's war leaders would have easily been charged with genocide.