Originally posted by specialasianX
Esotorica your in the States right?
Yes.
thats why you feel safer... he wont nuke you...
I doubt he's going to nuke anybody, though. I'd be terrified of him using a nuke anywhere, I just don't think he'd do it.
in regards to the Japs (no racism intended just easier to write) being happier being nuked... like you said they were veryproud and willing to
fight to the death... the japanese are all about honour... they would have been much happier (in my opinion of course... feel free to disagree i love
a good debate) to have had put up a fight and been beaten on their doorstep then to have to be humiliated and having to surrender due to a new super
weapon which they had absolutely no defense against...
Well, by happiness, I'm not just talking about Japan circa WWII. Sure, they were honor-crazy, and were happy to kill themselves for the Emperor.
But, I believe that allowing them to live and evolve as a culture was better than cutting a swath through the home islands. And I'm pretty damn sure
Japan today, maybe not happy we did it, can realize that the alternative was much worse.
Nobody
wanted to drop the bomb. However, there are times when even a bad choice is the best one.
i just think they would have been happier if they were given a chance to defend themselves...
They may have been happier, but they'd also be dead. I think they'd rather get to live.
WMD's are a cowardly way to resovle a conflict if no-one else has them.. nowadays though he who deploys a nuke on another nation indeed has
alot of balls to do so
I don't consider the nuking of Japan cowardly. The government did what it had to do to save American lives (which is it's job, after all). I mean,
sure, the Japanese were heroic and honorbound. Where did it lead them? To defeat and suicide. Those men are now dead in the ground. The Americans
who ended up not invading lived their lives out.
Dropping the bomb was neither heroic or cowardly. It was just an action taken to end a war that was going to end sooner or later.
Rememebr, Russia had it's eye on Japan. If the war hadn't ended sooner, Stalin would have invaded along with the Americans. Look at the mess East
Germany made, imagine if it applied to Japan also.