08-06-2017, 07:36 PM
(08-06-2017, 03:40 PM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: Well not really. The japanese people were warned about what was going to happen. But besides that there was no international law preventing the bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. On top of that there's also the fact that more people died from conventional bombs than did people from the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Also Japan committed many war crimes themselves especially against China. Go ask a Chinese civilian how they feel about the big mean ol' Americans nuking their dear friend Japan.
Imperial Japan gets by unnoticed to a lot of people due to the fact that they were carrying out atrocities at the same time that the Nazis were. They Holocaust was such a wholesale and well-publicized event that the actions of the Japanese go by the wayside.
Make no mistake, Imperial Japan was every bit as evil as Nazi Germany. Read a book called The Rape of Nanking, and you'll understand. Some of the things the Japanese did to the Chinese make ISIS look like kid stuff. Just remorseless brutality (including crimes perpetrated against pregnant women, the elderly, infants) and literal killing in mass numbers purely for sport. They bred soldiers to be brainwashed killing machines from childhood.
After reading this book, I have to say I changed my mind about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. It was an extreme measure, to be sure. It's something that should be avoided at all costs I the future, no doubt. However, condsidering the crimes committed by Imperial Japan and their extensive efforts to cover these crimes up all the way into the 2000's, I have little sympathy for them as a nation with respect to that event. Their ideology needed to be met with extreme violence (Much like the Nazis, perhaps even radical Islam) and rooted out, and it was.
