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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (37665)11/21/2001 1:02:45 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Would I have killed a million men to keep the principle of non-use of nuclear weapons? yes. But that doesn't make me braver than Truman, or more cowardly.. It simply means we analyze things differently.



I don't personally have any principle against useing nuclear weapons. The death and destruction at Nagasaki and Heroshima where bad not the fact that the death and destruction was caused by nuclear weapons. The fire bombings of Tokyo killed more then either of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, so if we could have avoided doing any of these attacks on Japan without prolonging the war it would seem to me to make more sense to have not done that attack.

In my opinion dropping the bombs on Nagasaki and Heroshima resulted in less death all around then an invasion would have so while the attacks where horrible I wouldn't consider them evil. Note: I am just talking about my own opinion I am not claiming that you would call them evil (or that you would not).

Tim
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