5th March 2004, 7:32 PM
Did you know we killed probably between 450,000 and 500,000 Japanese civilians during our bombings in World War II? Compared to about 250,000 American soldiers killed in the whole war...
Those numbers onyl reflect the fact that we won. If the Japanese had won, their losses would be lower and ours higher. If they'd won the Pacific, they would've bombed our cities and we'd have suffered more. It goes without saying that the winner will suffer fewer losses. And as for the legitimacy of using the A-bombs, I too ponder that...if we shouldn't have maybe just nuked a small village or nuked off-shore. That would've painted their panties brown without being so direct. Maybe we could've nuked a fishing ground, then moved up to worse targets until they gave in---but at least we didn't pull any Nankings or Bataans on their sorry, war-mongering asses.
Those numbers onyl reflect the fact that we won. If the Japanese had won, their losses would be lower and ours higher. If they'd won the Pacific, they would've bombed our cities and we'd have suffered more. It goes without saying that the winner will suffer fewer losses. And as for the legitimacy of using the A-bombs, I too ponder that...if we shouldn't have maybe just nuked a small village or nuked off-shore. That would've painted their panties brown without being so direct. Maybe we could've nuked a fishing ground, then moved up to worse targets until they gave in---but at least we didn't pull any Nankings or Bataans on their sorry, war-mongering asses.
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