Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020), Earl (08-09-2020)
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Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020), Earl (08-09-2020)
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020), Earl (08-09-2020)
Complain to the dictionary if you don't like the definition of genocide.
A civilian city is not a military target just because it has military installations. It's like taking out Norfolk just to get the Naval yard.
A use of such a weapon was a crime against humanity as well no matter the reasoning. Flexing such destructive capability is evil despite what we suffered at Pearl Harbor. It was beyond an eye for an eye. It was more like an eye for a life. As a Christian, it's impossible not to be sickened by these ravings of an atrocity as just or even heroic. Whatever I'm done talking about it.
Earl (08-09-2020)
AProudLefty (08-09-2020), ThatOwlWoman (08-09-2020)
"In June 1945, after eighty days of fighting and tens of thousands of casualties, the Americans captured the island of Okinawa. The mainland of Japan was open before them. It was a viable base from which to launch a full invasion of the Japanese homeland and end the war.
Estimates varied, but given the tenacity of Japanese soldiers fighting on islands far from their home, some officials estimated that an invasion of the Japanese mainland could cost half a million American casualties and perhaps millions of Japanese civilians."
http://www.americanyawp.com/text/24-world-war-ii/
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020), ExpressLane (08-09-2020)
If Norfolk ever sneak attacks America and murders thousands of Americans, they will be treated similarly.
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020)
As I mentioned in another discussion about the A-bombs, my dad worked on a part of the Manhattan Project. He suffered a lot of guilt because of it, yet to the end he said that he felt it was necessary to use them, given the circumstances. I'm grateful that no one has since used one.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020), AProudLefty (08-09-2020), Cypress (08-09-2020)
It appears that MAD has been successful.
1962
“In 1962, the concept of mutually assured destruction started to play a major part in the defence policy of the US. President Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, set out in a speech to the American Bar Foundation a theory of flexible nuclear response. In essence it meant stockpiling a huge nuclear arsenal.Feb 15, 2012“
Wikipedia.com
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020)
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020), ThatOwlWoman (08-09-2020)
“In June 1945, after eighty days of fighting and tens of thousands of casualties, the Americans captured the island of Okinawa. The mainland of Japan was open before them. It was a viable base from which to launch a full invasion of the Japanese homeland and end the war.
Estimates varied, but given the tenacity of Japanese soldiers fighting on islands far from their home, some officials estimated that an invasion of the Japanese mainland could cost half a million American casualties and perhaps millions of Japanese civilians."
http://www.americanyawp.com/text/24-world-war-ii/
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020)
Charoite (08-09-2020), ThatOwlWoman (08-09-2020)
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020)
My father was in thePacific in WWII and his company was preparing for the eventual attack on Japan when the bomb was dropped. The bomb undoubtedly saved American lives. Japan could have surrendered after the first Nuke but we had to use a second. A ground fight would have cost many more lives on both sides.
Last edited by ExpressLane; 08-09-2020 at 08:40 AM.
Anvil Kasseri (08-09-2020), Earl (08-09-2020)
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