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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yogizuna who wrote (42175)	1/11/2002 6:52:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The failure of a country to surrender is not enough justification to use such horrible terrorism upon it's citizens IMO. Much of the discussion here about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan has dealt with the likelihood of Japan surrendering anyway, but now you have opened up a new area for discussion. As I understand it you would have been against using the atomic bombs even if you knew that Japan would never have surrendered without an invasion or use of the atom bomb? Tim

To: Yogizuna who wrote (42175)	1/11/2002 7:29:18 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Dropping the bomb was the wrong thing to do. You're entitled to your opinion. And I'm entitled to my opinion that I'm damn glad Truman didn't agree with you that it would be better for hundreds of thousands of our sons and daughters, possibly including my father in law, to die invading Japan because it wouldn't be nice to drop the bomb on an enemy who had sneak-attacked us at the same time they were pretending to negotiate peace. The idea that the Japanese were about to surrender is silly. Arming the entire citizenry is not the path to surrender. Plotting to overthrow the emperor because it is feared he might not be eager to fight to the last man is not the path to surrender. It's revisionist history. Real men do the right thing even when it's a hard decision to make. Truman did the right thing. You're entitled to your opinion otherwise, of course, but you just show how irresponsible you are.