On 12/28/2014 3:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
> I learned more about US history in those 10 episodes than throughout
all of high school.
I haven't seen the series because I made a special effort not to, so I
really
shouldn't comment about it, but I will say that in general it would be wise
not to
believe everything Oliver Stone tells you.
That advice goes for any source. Adding new sources of information never hurts so long
as you bear that in mind.
Wrong "information" hurts when it is given credence.
> It was the Russians declaring war against Japan that concerned them
the most,
not the bomb.
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.
The estimates were in the hundreds of thousands - and that's among U.S. servicemen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall they obviously would have also killed a
lot of Japanese defenders.
Japanese casualties from Nagasaki and Hiroshima totaled about 200,000. Suppose U.S.
casualties in an invasion had been only 10,000 and Japanese casualties only 20,000; do you
think Truman should have sacrificed 10,000 of his own citizenry to save 180,000 of the
enemy? I can assure you that the U.S. electorate would not have agreed with such a
calculation.
Brent
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