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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (445630)	8/20/2003 5:32:41 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

War is logistics. Destroy a city and the logistics are not available for war. The use of the atomic bomb was more likely to kill any humans in the logistics being destroyed. That is the difference between the an atomic bomb and conventional bombs. The pathology of diseases and death that were unique after the initial blast were not known at the time. The understanding of radiation was primitive. But even knowing that would not have made it a terror weapon. The ability to destroy the logistic represented in a single city with one plane and one bomb made clear the clear danger of death to the emperor himself if a sky dark with planes visited Japan. All Japan, all logistic support, everything would be laid waste. The bomb demonstrated no possible way to resist and survive or win. Only the emperor could command a surrender. Decapitation would not have ended the war with any predictability. In the mind of the Japanese there was no terror over the fear of death. That was not part of the culture. The emperor may well have lived in fear for his life. Dying for the emperor was getting one's proverbial 57 virgins. That was the mindset of the of culture. Germany may have bombed English cities for the sake of terror. The allies bombed for the sake of destroying logistic support. You can listen to ivory tower types saying otherwise, but terror was not the focus of the allies bombing campaign.