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Originally Posted by LaRondo
The lesser of two choices...??
That's an interesting way of thinking, esp when the other option is based of pure presumption.
I understand that this is the wide spread understanding and how it is been taught to the American people in order to justify what has been done and to think it is ok to kill 200k civilian in a matter of seconds, if we do it.
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I dunno man, I think the hawks are right on this one. Japanese soldiers had a religious sort of devotion to fighting to the bitter end, to death that is hard to find a match for in history. The incredibly hard fighting that our guys (my Dad among them) endured fighting just for distant islands gave a good indication of how intractable the fighting was going to be on the main islands.
We humans have never built a weapon that we didn't eventually use. With any luck, the 2 bombs in Japan will be the first and only conflict they were used in.