Killjoy Cutter wrote...
The fact that Japan almost did not surrender after TWO atomic bombings makes it clear how much nonsense there is in the claim that they were about to surrender after ZERO atomic bombings.
Killjoy Cutter wrote...
Zulu_DFA wrote...
Killjoy Cutter wrote...
Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see the Standard Antinuclear Version of events being quoted verbatim here, it's all too common. It's sad, really.
Kinda odd to see it coming from the Cerberus defenders, though, seeing as they're of the "by any means necessary" philosophy when it comes to that group...
Kinda odd to see Cerberus condemnation from a person that defends nuking Japan as absolutely necessary, seeing how it was all about freeing the Japanese folks from their samurai junta that volunteered them for it...
The typical Japanese civilian was all for the war as long as they were winning it and killing Chinese...
The atomic bombings were NOT "any means", they were the only means, short of an invasion in which at least 10 times as many Japanese civilians would have died, if not more, and anywhere between 100000 and 1000000 Allied servicemen.
Operation Downfall: http://en.wikipedia....vasion_of_Japan
The fact that Japan did surrender after the bombings proves that it had been conditioned to surrender. It, however, tells nothing as to whether the nuclear conditioning in particular added up or the glass was already full by then.
On the other hand, the fact that should the coup succeed, it would require more nuking to bring Japan to its knees, defeats your argument about "saving more lives by nuking".
Of course, nuking Japanese women and children is preferable to sending tens of thousands of young Americans to their deaths in the urban and mountain warfare on the Japan's core islands, or, even worse, allowing young Russians, Ukranians, Georgians and Kazakhs to take the young Americans' place in eternity. I absolutely agree with you, sir. What I refuse to understand now that you admit it, how can you honestly condemn Cerberus for doing their stuff, which is quite petty, compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
As for your remark about a "typical Japanese civilian" and winning the war, it's (a) self-explanatory, (

self-defeating as the common sense suggests that any typical "typical civilian" is all for the war as long as it's going to be won, and © knowing the Japanese history and culture, it's simply doubtful, that a "typical Japanese civilian" of that time could have had any opinion about the war of their own. All your Opereation Downfall predictions are, in fact, based on the assumption that the "typical Japanese civilian" wouldn't be against the war until he died, and it does justify the nuking, but not from your high anti-Cerberus morals standpoint, where people must be saved even against their will and by the book, even at a higher cost.
Simply put, nuking was immoral. An invasion, and trying to save each innocent life of "typical Japanese civilans" misled to believe that America was evil, at any cost in American soldiers' lives would've been moral.
All right, you need to drop your double standards routine.
And again, how is Cerberus just as bad as the Reapers?
Modifié par Zulu_DFA, 30 septembre 2010 - 06:43 .