Quote Originally Posted by Cuchulainn
Quote Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
"The japaneese were worse than teh germans when it came to treatment of POWs." actually the german treatment of pows is the best out of any country in ww2.
Unless you were Russian.


Quote Originally Posted by Hachifusa
If we win, we have peace.

Christ, this isn't a hard concept.
And if the Japanese won they'd have peace, what concept exactly? Do you believe Imperial Japan wanted eternal war? The concept that's hard to grasp is the 'killing for peace' concept as it's dished out very selectively by victorious nations. Don't misunderstand me, I was not, am not, against the bombings. It was a weighed military strike which saved GI lives. But dress it up in combats, not a white robe & halo.
Japan couldn't win. We could, and we did. We obtained peace at the minimum loss of human life possible. THAT'S the concept that you are supposed to be realizing. Oh, and don't even suggest that we should have surrendered to end the war.

I haven't tried to give it a white robe or a halo. It was a military strike, and none of us are trying to argue that it was an angelic thing to do. But make no mistake, it ended the war and brought peace, and it did a lot more than just save GI lives. Stop denying that and maybe we'll stop trying to force that idea through your thick skull so hard.