Kevin_Kennedy
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- Aug 27, 2008
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What does Bushido or self-defense have to do with this? The fact is that our government purposefully targeted civilians that had committed no crime other than being citizens of a country we were at war with and dropped an atomic bomb on them.
There was no such thing as a civilian to the Japanese.
As for your Mid-eastern child analogy, it doesn't fit. A child that picks up a gun and shoots at someone is not innocent. They may be forced to do so against their will, or they may be too young to understand what they're doing but they're not innocent. Those Japanese civilians had done no harm to us.
I didn't say whether or not either were innocent. My belief is that all children are innocent, no matter the condition.
They were civilians regardless. They weren't in the armed forces and they did nothing to deserve being bombed.