ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Sieppo
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Of course the procedings involved some theater. The whole purpose was to give some sense of closure and sense of justice to the hundreds of millions of vitims of Japanese aggression and to chasten the Japanese so it didn't happen again.
The procedings were a damn site more civilized than the Bataan Death march.
Thank you for changing the avatar Sieppo. Everyone can get behind Asahi.
Even so, I think your anti-American skirt was showing in post #16 [;)] Showing a picture of a B-29, as you suggest, is not really the same thing. Have a nice day.
I'm not anti-anything in a generalizing way, it's too easy and rarely has a basis. I'm anti-hypocrisy and anti-stupidity. Saying that someone is anti-American based on these comments is a bit like saying that someone is antisemitic based on his/her criticism on the actions of Israel with the Palestinians. So if it sounded anti-American, I apologize.
Understood, and thank you. Here is the deal. I would say that quite a few Americans on this board do not see the use of nukes as a war crime. Given the shocking number of American and Japanese civilian casualties on Okinawa, there is no President of the US (even if his mom were Finnish) that would order an inavasion of Kyushu with the likely cost of 100-200K American lives when there was a weapon to end it months earlier. That is not to mention all the Brits and Indians that mght have been killed in Malasia or the Australians in the DEI or the Chinese or the Allied POW's who were suffering terribly.
It was no war crime. It was a pragmatic imperative to end a war that unleashed some of the most beastial behavior in the history of man. There are probably a few here that would not exist (because their grandfathers or fathers might have been killed) had the war continued for another 6-18 monhts.
By ra way, I like Kirin better too. [:)]
Thanks for your mature answer
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Understood also. War makes people do awful things and then,if you are happy to be a young man, you most probably die because some other people (mostly elderly gentlemen that most probably will not participate in the hostilities) have decided, that diplomacy is not enough anymore.
I've done my obligatory year of military service and I sure as hell hope, I NEVER have to put it in practice. I do not feel, that I owe my life to the state in addition to taxes and that military service etcetc.
