After reading this NYT article on the Nagasaki bombing, U.S. was truly pathetic

[Tate]

Japan's atrocities do not justify the atrocities done to them, wtf is wrong with y'all

That's exactly how Israel justifies it's barbaric treatment of Palestinians

When's the last time Palestinians raped and murdered damn near half a continent?

Palestine is a victim of imperialism, Japan was a enthusiastic participent.

 

[CHL]

When's the last time Palestinians raped and murdered damn near half a continent?

Palestine is a victim of imperialism, Japan was a enthusiastic participent.

I don't see how you can hold everyone in entire populations directly responsible for the actions of the State at least several thousands of those killed (murdered) probably disagreed with much of the Japanese governments actions, no?

 

[the cac mamba]

crazy what this dude hitler perpetuated

 

[Tate]

I don't see how you can hold everyone in entire populations directly responsible for the actions of the State at least several thousands of those killed (murdered) probably disagreed with much of the Japanese governments actions, no?

Yeah probably. And I think it was wrong to drop the bomb. I just don't think Japan has any right to grievence here. If they had had a nuke they damn sure would have dropped it on Pearl Harbour or Nanking or the Philippines.

That blood is just as much on Tojo and the junta's hands as its on Truman's.

 

[Da King]

lets bytch about something we cannot change. it ended the war. that was the intended effect.

Cacs can same the same thing about slavery you stupid c00n

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Cacs can same the same thing about slavery you stupid c00n

Im a cac so least im consistant

Crying over the horror one country did to another when that same country committed equal horrors is wasting time to me. Sorry

 

[You Win Perfect]

It has been said many times that history is written by the victors, which explains why this was never a war crime.

 

[King Kreole]

When's the last time Palestinians raped and murdered damn near half a continent?

Palestine is a victim of imperialism, Japan was a enthusiastic participent.

The whole point is that being victimized does not make you morally justified to victimize another. The inverse is true; that being a perpetrator of a heinous crime does not make it justified for someone else to commit a heinous crime against you. Japan obviously has a lot of blood on their hands, but that doesn't negate the inherent wrongness of America dropping the Atomic bomb on them.

 

[Tate]

The whole point is that being victimized does not make you morally justified to victimize another. The inverse is true; that being a perpetrator of a heinous crime does not make it justified for someone else to commit a heinous crime against you. Japan obviously has a lot of blood on their hands, but that doesn't negate the inherent wrongness of America dropping the Atomic bomb on them.

I agree that dropping the bomb was wrong. Japan doesn't have room to complain as a state though. Individuals from Hiroshima or Nagasaki might.

 

[PremierDaTruth]

Tough break we dropped flyers for them telling them to dip, they didn't and well you saw the results

 

[Truth200]

The human species can be so stupid that 50 million people got slaughtered for nothing in WW2.

I guess it was just some form of population control...idk

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

They were a people who were told that they were superior to everyone else.

That sounds familiar

 

[Shogun]

Why no protests of the for more lethal bombing raids launched on Japan prior to Hiroshima/Nagasaki?

 

[Shogun]

The human species can be so stupid that 50 million people got slaughtered for nothing in WW2.

I guess it was just some form of population control...idk

Not for nothing. It proved the failure of the nation state, and introduced international coalition building.
Without World War 2, a US/Soviet showdown would have happened, and had the potential to be a whole lot worse than WW2.
No major wars since. If we make it to 2045 without one that'll be a bit of record.

 

[mbewane]

So since the main US argument here seems to be "The Japanese did horrible things, they got what they deserved" why didn't the US drop a nuclear bomb on Germany?