Aetherfukz wrote:You're completely freaked out it you think that the bombing of Japan was a good thing! It's not that Japan was "the good side", but neither so was the USA, the CSSR or even Germany. Nobody is "on the good side" in war. War is just cruel! Nobody wins it, besides the very Grip Reaper himself...
If your attitude is really like you wrote above there, I can only pity your lost soul, for you have no understanding of life.
Peace out,
~Aetherfukz
Mmmmm.... I'd say that the US and it's allies (along with the Soviets) were definitely on the good side in WWII. Allied forces and leaders weren't the ones invading neighboring countries (well, maybe Stalin did a bit, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms) and rounding up millions of people for torment and worse just because they fit a certain racial profile and were a convenient scapegoat to rally against. If anything, I'd say the US was too slow to get into WWII. The Allied forces have (or had) little to apologize for, in my book.
Not to say that war is pretty or glamourous, but when things shake out, you can look back and say "well, they were fighting for good, they were fighting for evil". It's not always that black and white, but it's not always muddled, either.
As for Japan, they're a good example of what letting the military have too much governmental power, as well as fervent nationalism, reap. And Japan has just as much atrocious blood from that time on its hand as the US does from the atomic bombs, if not more. Korean comfort women, the rape of Nanking, mistreatment of POWs, as well as other war crimes can be attributed to the Japanese military (and government) of that time. The atomic bombs about equal it out, but they weren't entirely the innocent irradiated victims some may point them out to be. And a land invasion may have been a far worse thing, in the long run.
One thing to think about the atomic bomb droppings: they showed the world the horror that they can wrought. The hesitation to use them again that the A-bombs created
is a good thing.
And UncleMilo, Mroni's attitude, besides being his own free opinion that he is entitled to, can be found worldwide, not just here in the US. Indeed, suppression of a person's free opinion is far worse, in my book, than the opinion being suppressed. Debate him, don't berate him.
I'm out...