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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Anonymous2007-10-02 19:15 ID:4xgDKixe
what are you, twelve? You don't seem to be able to understand what I'm saying.
Only a moron tries to bring morality to war. war is inherently immoral. You must kill enough of the other side to make them quit, and Japanese demonstrated over and over that we may just have had to kill ALL of them. get that? ALL of them. erradicated. gone. no hentai. no playstation. no toyota. gone. unconditional surrender was not, is not, something they were capable of. Surrender is dishonor, and without honor, why live? They would have rather died well than surrender and be dishonored.
Do you really think it would have been better to unleash the Soviet Army on the Japanese? They were poised to invade from the North, and Stalin would have made sure whatever he took of the Japanese territories he would keep. And Stalin would have thought nothing of exterminating the Japanese people.
the Japanese think everyone else is inferior. They saw us weak, cowardly barbarians. If you think that's propaganda, you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
The Japanese are STILL one of the most racist cultures on the planet.
Civilians make war material. therefore they're valid targets for the other side. Any civilians. the only thing that prevented US cities from being decimated like everywhere else is great big oceans. Though the Japanese did try to float bombs over here on balloons, it wasn't too successful.