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Skriven 2005-08-15 23:04:15 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
Ärende: atomic bomb question
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VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
 VH>>> It's hard to imagine how brutal and barbaric they were.  They actually
 VH>>> ate the hearts of shot-down American pilots on Chichi Jima (and George
 VH>>> Bush, Sr., barely escaped that -- he was shot down, but bailed out at
 VH>>> sea and was picked up by a sub.)

 EH>> And we have self-righteous idiots claiming that we were the bad guys for
 EH>> dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 VH> Interestingly enough, on a religious forum, this was hotly debated.
 VH> Finally someone started a new thread -- "Tell me what you would do and
 VH> what the outcome would be."

 VH> No one was able to offer a course of action that did not result in at
 VH> least an order of magnitude more deaths!

Of course they couldn't. We insisted on unconditional surrender and Japan
wanted conditions. There was also even after the second bomb was dropped an
attempted coup by some of the Japanese military leaders. They didn't want to
surrender. They somehow thought they could turn the tide of the war and win.

 VH>>> On Luzon, they herded American POWs into a bunker and poured in gasolin
 VH>>> rather than allow them to be rescued.

 EH>> I watched a program on History channel "History v. Hollywood" about "The
Gre
 EH>> Raid" and they interviewed a guy that lived in a village not far from the
ca
 EH>> and he told of how he watched in horror as they burned the American POWs
ali

 VH> And this is only a single, tiny incident in a horrible tapistry of
 VH> brutality.  The Japanese were truly barbarians.

Exactly. There was even more brutality that hasn't been reported much. Even at
this late date.

 VH>>> And a lot of Americans think "If we hadn't invaded them, they wouldn't
 VH>>> be killing us."

 EH>> How some can be so naive is amazing.

 VH> Kind of like, "If you hadn't stepped over that log, there wouldn't have
 VH> been a rattlesnake on the other side."

Heh, that's about it.

Ed

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