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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Dude, the war is over.
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Sorry, sorry. I meant of course to say Slants. Apologies.
Well of course you can look at it from both sides (you have to) but I'm talking more about the opinion of Americans, whose government (even if it was before they were born) made the decision to drop the bomb. Do you agree with it or not? You've sort of avoided the question there really. Do you, personally (never mind the Japanese mothers and children etc) agree it was the only thing to do?
It's hard of course to answer that question without being able to appreciate the situation America was in, facing a possible land invasion of Japan and all the subsequent carnage that would entail. And we have the benefit of hindsight, too, knowing what a first step to MAD those two attacks were. I just wondered, as Americans, are you proud, ashamed, or do you care about what happened? What (assuming there was a war and you had no choice as a country but to be in one) would you have done in Truman's shoes? And don't say take a s
hit in them...