I was having a conversation with someone from Amazon today and this person mentioned that the nukes on Japan were justified. I personally feel that it is quite psychotic to defend this act. Not to include in the poll but this person also condoned that the murder of almost 200.000 civilians in Iraq - that it was the right thing to do. Murder of 100.000 civilians in Afghanistan was according to law and there for is ok. The torture and rape in the same wars were defended intensely. Is this really how Americans feel? Iām not American and I donāt live in the US right now. I have lived a few years in NYC but Iām curious to know what the rest of the country thinks... Iām personally completely and totally against all forms of war and violence. Itās scary to think that I might move back one day. Perhaps I should stay in New York.
Nuking them actually ended up killing less
Whoa, stop it with the facts buddy. Everything the US does is evil, whatās not to understand?
Is rape in nanjing justified?
No. Obviously not. Two evils donāt make something good. Both are disgusting events. And if there was a separate poll I hope 100% would vote NO, it wasnāt justified.
I think we should have not lifted a finger against Japan, and let them rape hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Korean women, destroy their heritage and burn their temples, stick their babies heads on spikes, and shove their bodies in mass unmarked burial sites so that OPās feelings would not be hurt. To quote a Japanese soldier and general during the war, with respect to a Chinese woman: āIs it okay if I rape her?ā āYes, but only if you kill her when you are done.ā Based on Japanās 50 year history of massacre, racism, and atrocities leading up to the nuke drop, in retrospect, I believe if we had only asked nicely, perhaps they would have stopped mass raping and murdering and waging war against millions. You are right OP, we were wrong!
Americans are usually simple minded people who can be easily brainwashed with propaganda while they point fingers at North Korea.
Dumbest comment of the year. In one swoop: defending North Korea, bathing in ignorance of the realities of world war 2, and acting like a holier than thou asshat with the typical āAmerica Badā narrative.
Not an argument, MemeMagic. What you said does not, at all, address what he said. Why the strawmanning. Why oh why?
Livid about 9/11 but proud of nuking Japan. How hypocritical.
Yes because the US ending a war and preventing another couple million dead that would have resulted from an invasion of Japan is in any way comparable to radical Jihadists performing a surprise attack
I am proud that the US nuked Japan, because it ended the largest scale act of genocide the world has ever seen. The nukes took 200K civilians. The Japanese took 6M civilian lives across Asian and enslaved their women for sex. In other words the Japanese caused 30 times as many civilian casualties as the US nukes caused. If the US nukes had killed 1M, Iād have still been proud of what we did, because Japan would not stop until it was utterly defeated. The alternative to nukes would have been a brutal ground invasion which would have been far costlier.
Might makes right. History is written by the victors.
And a country that saved Europe from the Nazi empire and Asia from the Japanese empire, spread democracy to the world and produced the majority of the worldās greatest scientific, technological, industrial and social advances in the last century. But letās characterize the entire country off of one thing you donāt like. Ps - I believe we should have let Japan invade all of Asia, and the USA too. This would have been more politically correct.
US saved the Europe, please...
America was at war. A conventional war would be protracted and potentially cost more lives.
Well it ended the war,.and the Japanese murdered like 10 million Chinese, look at Nanjing for instance. Is killing that many people Instantly bad, yes, but it was war time.
It was unnecessary. Japan had no allies; its navy was almost destroyed; its islands were under a naval blockade; and its cities were undergoing concentrated air attacks. Japan had already lost the war and they were no longer a threat. Post the bombs being dropped, Rear Admiral Tocshitane Takata concurred that B-29s āwere the greatest single factor in forcing Japanās surrenderā, while Prince Konoye already thought Japan was defeated on 14 February 1945 when he met emperor Hirohito. If anything, the nukes were used as a ānobody ever think about fucking with America againā type of statement. To answer your question. Yes, most Americans do condone the Nukes on Japan. Whether they are right or wrong is a different question.
A swing and a miss
I think it was sick but Americans are pretty proud of it honestly
So you prefer more people would have rather died.. like probably 5 or 6 times more? I'm not an American but I believe the atom bomb was the lesser of two evils
I would prefer for not instantly killing +300.000 civilians on purpose. It would have been a different story if there was a tactical attack that specifically targeted military.