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Tealeaf · 08-08-2005, 09:17

The other relevant question is "How many lives did dropping the bomb save". I certainly do not accept that Japan was on its knees in the summer of 1945;as such, the only way to finish them would have been an invaision of their mainland. Given the Japanese tactics used on the outlying islands, allied planners put the cost of this in Japanese lives at anywhere between 1m & 5 million civilians alone (not to mention Japenese & Allied military lives)

I therefore have no sympathy whatsoever with the Japanese sense of victimisation; as a nation, they are still in self denial over their endless catalogue of war crimes starting in Manchuria in the 1930's through Pearl Harbour and their evil treatment of Allied POWs.

Sod this Japanese and western bleeding-heart whinging; I have no time for it.

08-08-2005, 09:17	#3
Tealeaf God Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Paradise Lost Posts: 7,220 Liked: 11 times Rep Power: 4266	Re: Hiroshima on TV The other relevant question is "How many lives did dropping the bomb save". I certainly do not accept that Japan was on its knees in the summer of 1945;as such, the only way to finish them would have been an invaision of their mainland. Given the Japanese tactics used on the outlying islands, allied planners put the cost of this in Japanese lives at anywhere between 1m & 5 million civilians alone (not to mention Japenese & Allied military lives) I therefore have no sympathy whatsoever with the Japanese sense of victimisation; as a nation, they are still in self denial over their endless catalogue of war crimes starting in Manchuria in the 1930's through Pearl Harbour and their evil treatment of Allied POWs. Sod this Japanese and western bleeding-heart whinging; I have no time for it.