[airspirit]

The Japanese people that got the bomb dropped on them got what Japan was asking for.

This mentality of yours, if I'm reading you right, is what the Liberal Left has been trying to cram down the throats of Americans since day one and it is ridiculous.

We saved Japanese lives by killing them. We saved American lives by killing them. It is not a crime against humanity, it is strictly a way of ending a war.

The Japanese people, if we had landed over a million troops on their beaches, would have fought to the last man to repel invasion. They had made that clear to us.

The Japanese people were all ready to fight. They were all required to be armed and ready. Men, Women, even some older children were all geared up ready to kill American troops, should we ever had landed.

The reality of the situation was that if we had invaded, it would have been millions of Japanese people, instead of a couple of hundred thousand. Can you imagine a bunch of ragtag militia troops with old swords and whatever other weapons they could scrounge up rushing a group of trained soldiers? We would have littered every Japanese island with the dead, including women and children, before they would have given up.

It wasn't until we bombed their cities and convinced them that we had many more bombs ready to drop on them (which was a complete deception), that they were ready to give up. The specter of the entirety of Japan turning into one large, charred graveyard was what prompted their leaders (a dictatorship under the guise of an empire) to give up.

The Japanese people should thank us that we ended the war as we did. The only regret that the US should have is for the infants that died in those blasts, because every man woman and child that was old enough to carry a weapon would have been mobilized as combatants anyway had we invaded.

In the end, the US did the right, proper, and HUMANE thing by ending the war as they did.

The sad reality of today is that the Liberal Tratorious Left is trying to portray what we did as cruel (my favorite is the lie that "Japan was about to surrender anyway," which is why they were still firing upon our ships (civilian and otherwise) and its troops were still firing upon ours wherever they were left), inhumane (as if killing millions rather than thousands is any more humane), or an act of terrorism. I'm sorry, but terrorism is an act by a radical group trying to force action through random destruction of lives and properties, attempting to coerce governments or groups of people to perform acts or provide compensation that would benefit that group. There is usually nothing that compels these people to do what they do except ideology. The weeping that they have for the poor dead Japanese of old is an excuse for tearing down our military machine in the name of American socialism (they would also tax 100% of your income and redistribute it as they see fit, if they had their way, most of it going oversees to the poor of countries who allow themselves to be robbed by their governments, if not to the governments themselves).

Example: the Palestinian people could just shut up and take advantage of the fact that Israel lets them live there, but instead they won't quit until every Jew is either dead or deported. They don't HAVE to randomly kill Israeli civilians to ensure their survival as a people, but they do it because they want more than they currently have.

Example: Osama bin Pigf*cker doesn't have to kill civilians. He could sit in his hole and enjoy the goats and camels that he sleeps with, but instead wants to force his ideology onto everybody.

Ending a war isn't terrorism. Do any of you know that the cities that were bombed were industrial centers geared toward the Japanese war machine? Do any of you care? To call a wartime action terrorism, especially when it was an act guaranteed to end the war with the minimum amount of death on the enemy, is not terrorism.

If anything, blowing them to kingdom come was an act of compassion, and it was a decision that should be praised even today.

The difference between Pearl Harbor and the bombings of those cities was that in Pearl Harbor we were not at war, and during the bombing of those cities, we were.

If they had declared war at a point prior to the Hawaii attack, we would have nothing to moan about, because it was a valid military target. Attacking it without warning like they did, though, flies in the face of every rule of war (there actually are rules, for the countries that obey them) that every nation holds dear.

Think about this next time you weep for the Japanese that died those days. They were participants in one of the most merciful acts the US has ever committed.

If you still don't get it, join the military for a stint and you'll get a full understanding of reality, if you ever have the pleasure of being in enemy fire.