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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Yogizuna who wrote (42070)1/8/2002 5:10:38 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
It is extremely frightening how stubbornly some will cling to their sad attempts at justifying the vaporizing, burning and maiming of mostly innocent women and children to justify minimizing military casualties and bring about a faster end to a war.... It really makes me wonder about the sanity of my fellow human beings.

There is nothing insane about prefering that the dead from a war be on the enemy side rather then on your side. You might think that such an attitude is not noble or pure or moral in your opinion, but moral or not there is nothing crazy about it.

For me the question really comes down to would either an invasion, or months of blockade and heavy bombing have been needed to make Japan surender. If the answer is yes then the atomic bombing was justified in my opinion. We aren't just talking about deaths of American soldiers (an in any case American leaders have a moral duty to try and reduce those deaths) but Japanese soldiers and civilans. Either an invasion or months of continueing the bombing and blockade would probably have caused more death the the atom bombs.

If the war would have shortly ended without the atom bombs or an invasion then there is still the question of did Truman (and his advisors, and to a lesser extent FDR who made the preliminary decision that was confrirmed by Truman) know that Japan would shortly surrender? If they did not then the decision they made was justified even if it would be a horrible mistake.

Tim
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