<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Larry Wiley:
As bad as the above acts by the U.S. are, they pale in comparison to the war crimes commited by the crew of the Enola Gay and their bombing of Hiroshima! That whole crew and their commanders, all the way up to Truman, should have been put on trial for their atrocities.
LW<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LOL. The US had two options to end the war. They took the one that spared the most lives. How is that a war crime?
As bad as the above acts by the U.S. are, they pale in comparison to the war crimes commited by the crew of the Enola Gay and their bombing of Hiroshima! That whole crew and their commanders, all the way up to Truman, should have been put on trial for their atrocities.
LW<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LOL. The US had two options to end the war. They took the one that spared the most lives. How is that a war crime?
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Larry Wiley:
As bad as the above acts by the U.S. are, they pale in comparison to the war crimes commited by the crew of the Enola Gay and their bombing of Hiroshima! That whole crew and their commanders, all the way up to Truman, should have been put on trial for their atrocities.
LW<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Do you feel so strongly about this that you would commit suicide in order to avoid dropping the bombs?
Try to imagine yourself as a 19 or 20 year old male in 1945. If you had to invade the mainland, there's a 80% probability you would have died a violent and brutal death. And you would have been forced to cause countless Japanese (civilian and military) violent and brutal deaths.
It very easy to sit there in your comfort and safety 50+ years later and revise history to your liking.
But essentially, anyone who states this shouldn't have happened needs to also agree that they are willing to commit suicide over these beliefs. And most of you couldn't even live without air-conditioning, let alone take a knife to your own gut.
As bad as the above acts by the U.S. are, they pale in comparison to the war crimes commited by the crew of the Enola Gay and their bombing of Hiroshima! That whole crew and their commanders, all the way up to Truman, should have been put on trial for their atrocities.
LW<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Do you feel so strongly about this that you would commit suicide in order to avoid dropping the bombs?
Try to imagine yourself as a 19 or 20 year old male in 1945. If you had to invade the mainland, there's a 80% probability you would have died a violent and brutal death. And you would have been forced to cause countless Japanese (civilian and military) violent and brutal deaths.
It very easy to sit there in your comfort and safety 50+ years later and revise history to your liking.
But essentially, anyone who states this shouldn't have happened needs to also agree that they are willing to commit suicide over these beliefs. And most of you couldn't even live without air-conditioning, let alone take a knife to your own gut.
