On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I I highly recommend watching Oliver Stone's Untold History of the >>> United States. >>> >> >> >> Oliver Stone is the same jackass who was behind that moronic Kennedy >> assassination conspiracy movie. >> > > > What was moronic about it? >
Do I really need to answer that question? >> There are lots of theories but we will never know if the Japanese would >> have surrendered without the bomb or the invasion but I do know one thing, >> it wasn't unreasonable for the American's to expect that they would not, >> and it wasn't unreasonable for the American's to expect that a invasion >> would cause a gargantuan number of casualties. >> > > >The estimates were in the tens of thousands, which is high but still a > small fraction of those killed by the bombs. > At the time the Americans were estimating that when they invaded the Japanese mainland they would suffer 500,000 casualties; nobody will ever know if their estimate was correct but extrapolating from their experience at Okinawa it was not unreasonable for someone in 1945 to make a estimate like that. And Jason ask yourself this, if you were a American soldier who was still alive after going through 4 years of hell what would you do to someone who told you that you and tens of thousands of your fellows needed to die to save Japanese living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? > Had the US lost the war, would not those who authorized fire bombing > cities and nuking civilian population centers be charged and convicted of > war crimes? > Certainly, but it didn't and they weren't. >> now 200 bombers can devastate 200 cities, and that causes 200 times as >> much damage as 200 bombers devastating one city. >> > > > Perhaps so, if it were credible that we had amassed a stockpile of such > weapons before using any of them. > Two nuclear bombs and two destroyed cities in 3 days, if I were a Japanese leader in August 1945 that would seem like a pretty credible stockpile to me. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
