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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: stsimon who wrote (257506)8/1/2014 9:37:52 PM
From: Alex MG  Read Replies (2) of 542088
 
I guess I missed the part about World War II where they firebombed our largest cities and dropped atom bombs on us.

As for dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

what was the alternative?... the Japanese would not surrender... so it would have cost many more lives on both sides to invade with ground forces to force their surrender

The Japanese were ruthless... they were the original suicide bombers... they also brainwashed their own people into believing the Americans were "the devil"... so much so that civilian Japanese people jumped to their death over cliffs as opposed to simply surrendering to invading American forces... WWII is not comparable to other wars... one thing is for sure, the war ended abruptly

but it does seem like we should have learned our lesson by now, with regard to stupid wars such as vietnam, afghanistan, iraq, etc

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