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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (18374)9/7/2002 11:20:55 PM
From: Investor Clouseau  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 27666
 
To have bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima was a life-saving event by your implication.

IMO, it is a fact, that it saved lives of American soldiers, but at the expense of Japanese civilians.

The question should be, "if a bomb was dropped in Tokyo Bay as an example, would that have forced the hard-line Japanese to surrender?"

IC



To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (18374)9/8/2002 8:46:38 PM
From: hal jordan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 27666
 
It was a life-saving event. American lives were saved. Yes, it is regrettable innocent Japanese civilians had to die or suffer great injuries. That was war. In war, you do what is necessary to cut casualties on your side. As Patton once said, you don't win by dying for your country, you make the other dumb bastard die for his country.


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