View Single Post
  #17 (permalink)     Quote this post in a PM
Old Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
Rusalka's Avatar
Rusalka Rusalka está offline
Inactive Member
 
Last Online: 4 Weeks Ago 00:14
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: There's karyatids and stuff around here
Age: 30
Posts: 2,864
Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.Rusalka is a sage.
Default Re: This must be said!

Let us not forget the wonderful retaliation the American government came up with at the end of World War II; in response to the bombing of naval bases in Pearl Harbor (which I don't think was nice, but hey, at least it was a naval base) the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with A-bombs. It's not just Hiroshima, it's not just Nagasaki; and it certainly isn't the case that they didn't know how much destruction the bombs would cause; they knew it very well. Robert McNamara, years later was, shall we say, chatty enough to talk about it freely in the documentary 'Fog of War'. Probably because now he's in his 80s and was sure no harm would come to him. He even admitted to the fact that they had burnt down almost whole of Japan anyway and that they didn't need to use the A-bombs because Japan was sure to give up, but hey, they had all this research put into it and since Germany was defated before they finished the bomb there was only Japan left. The President was even insistent on bombing Germany "anyway", they had to change his mind, and re-direct him to less problematic solutions; hence Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why isn't he and the remaining of his government tried by a group of Japanese people who are "expecting justice"? What's the difference between him and the "evil ex-Nazis" on whose heads new awards are put? They're about the same age as he, if not older, but they deserve to be put to trial and executed and no one from the American government during the WWII doesn't? Oh-kay...