This thread reminds me of the fact this is a community of sports fans.
Quote:
"In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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But continue believing what you were taught in school by your teachers. Im done with the lol WUT boys. If anyone wants to seriously discuss something on this topic inbox me because this thread is a home for people who think west is only a direction and the Japanese couldn't have conceivably been defeated in any other way than the 'merciful' act of dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population including women and children. PS Japan was already discussing surrender with the Brits far before this bomb was dropped and to suggest it was anything other than a war crime and act of terrorism is very telling of how you view the "others" and the value of their lives. I wonder how you would feel if it was Hitler dropping the A bomb on some European allied cities where there were hundreds of thousands of civilians. I'd feel exactly the same, because I love all people and value human life equally in times of peace and war.
PS there is a consensus those with 3 digit IQs, AND a heart; that this was a war crime.