gipper
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Yeah KILL those women, children, and old people because they are cruel, sadistic, and murderous.Yes, in the eye of those who are beholden to the foreign powers, all that the USA does in our defense is a mistake. Of course our biggest mistake is allowing folks like Howard Zinn to become professors in our Universities.It was a part of justifying the use of the Bomb.
In 1945- no one was very concerned about justifying the use of the Atomic bomb.
While there were a few concerned about the morality of using the atomic bomb, that I believe was mostly ignorance- ignorance of the massive bombing campaigns over Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Most Americans had no qualms with inflicting any harm to Japan- and FDR was a master of the pulse of the American people. He didn't have to justify using a weapon that he didn't live to authorize the use of.
Was Iwo Jima a mistake? Very possibly- certainly we committed to very many other costly battles that in hindsight accomplished little- and to our point of view- should have been foreseen.
Is your thread intended to be a warning of how governments can commit to make strategic errors- or is it just another attack on FDR?
The one thing that we should absolutely remember about the Battle of Iwo Jima is the bravery and sacrifice of the Marines who believed that they were making a difference in the battle to defeat Imperial Japan.
That Japanese were a very cruel, sadistic, murderous people who needed to be stopped, is ignored by the revisionist, It is a shame we did not have the Atomic Bomb in 1941 to stop them and Hitler.
The Atomic Bomb and the Marines saved the lives of countless Americans, 100,000? Maybe 500,000? The estimates vary, at the least destroying Nagasaki and Hiroshima saved a 1,000,000 Japanese lives.
Thank God, Truman treated the Atomic bomb as if it was simply the biggest, best, bomb ever made. All these emotions that syriusly attach to the bomb is just revisionist marxism as published by Howard Zinn.
Yes, syriously speaks of morality? In syriously's mind morality was to never to stop that japanese before or after they began their campaign of raping 10 year old chines virgins or the bayoneting of pregnant chinese women.
Yes, syriously would of had the USA cower and retreat, leaving Pearl Harbor and Hawaii to the Japanese, most likely surrendering California and the entire west coast of the USA to the Japanese.
syriously has no idea what is, moral.