"You're a leftist if you thinking using nuclear weaponry - twice - on largely civilian targets isn't good and should have been avoided."
Yeah, that get's old, try again.
There were so many other ways to handle things. And, if a show of force had been needed, why not drop one on an empty area to start? Or an isolated military base or something? Fucking obliterating an air base would have sent a message too.
Look, it's not even about the nukes, that's kind of a distraction anyway. Nukes exist, and they're a tool. I think nuking civilians is bad, just like I think the nonnuclear atrocities are bad too, from all sides. The firebombing of both Germany and Britain were evil.
I get things spiral in war, but you're taking a chunk out of your own soul when you engage in such actions. Intentionally targeting civilians, intentional starvation, all that...it's bad, and you should just say 'we're not doing that,' even if it's a very effective strategy of war.
I'm just not going to sign off on the bombing - especially the double bombing - of Japan.
WW2 was a fucking dumpster fire from the start, and everyone had plenty of offramps.
Talk like "chunk of your soul" wank sounds nice and flowery when you're nowhere near any actual fighting, but if you asked any of the teenage marines who had to fight in Iwojima or Okinawa or any other useless battle when the war was already clearly over they'd probably say "fuck that nuke em again".
Yes! Except the battles weren't "useless" they were required to set up the invasion of the Home Islands.
Aside from liberating the Philippines, THAT was useless! McArthur had deserted his troops in disgrace & it was his vanity alone that required the Philippines to be liberated.
Every Allied soldier looking into the meatgrinder of Operation Olympic would gladly keep dropping atom bombs until the cows came home.
"You're a leftist if you thinking using nuclear weaponry - twice - on largely civilian targets isn't good and should have been avoided."
Yeah, that get's old, try again.
There were so many other ways to handle things. And, if a show of force had been needed, why not drop one on an empty area to start? Or an isolated military base or something? Fucking obliterating an air base would have sent a message too.
Look, it's not even about the nukes, that's kind of a distraction anyway. Nukes exist, and they're a tool. I think nuking civilians is bad, just like I think the nonnuclear atrocities are bad too, from all sides. The firebombing of both Germany and Britain were evil.
I get things spiral in war, but you're taking a chunk out of your own soul when you engage in such actions. Intentionally targeting civilians, intentional starvation, all that...it's bad, and you should just say 'we're not doing that,' even if it's a very effective strategy of war.
I'm just not going to sign off on the bombing - especially the double bombing - of Japan.
WW2 was a fucking dumpster fire from the start, and everyone had plenty of offramps.
Talk like "chunk of your soul" wank sounds nice and flowery when you're nowhere near any actual fighting, but if you asked any of the teenage marines who had to fight in Iwojima or Okinawa or any other useless battle when the war was already clearly over they'd probably say "fuck that nuke em again".
Yes! Except the battles weren't "useless" they were required to set up the invasion of the Home Islands.
Aside from liberating the Philippines, THAT was useless! McArthur had deserted his troops in disgrace & it was his vanity alone that required the Philippines to be liberated.
Every Allied soldier looking into the meatgrinder of Operation Olympic would gladly keep dropping atom bombs until the cows came home.