Maybe Obama should mourn the 17 million deaths Japan was responsible for. Japan committed so many atrocities which they never took responsibility for, just ignored like it didn't happen.
It is all summed up in a story that ran on PBS last night about photo's of the effects of the atomic weapons of the day that are presumed to have been seen by Harry Truman and in spite of which he ordered the use of the bombs. The Liberal affe wholes behind this propaganda finish the hack piece of propaganda saying that even back in that day the World knew there could be no justification for the carnage they unleashed. Horse ... sh-t! Any time, and EVERY time an enemy causes such an upheaval of America's peace and security and presents the conundrum of victory in the Defense of Our Nation at the cost of hundreds of thousands of American lives (although that number is far to high) WE have the duty and the RIGHT to blow those SOB's straight to hell and turn their land to ash!
Wow, let's hope none of the many enemies of the US, many of whom have suffered directly or indirectly as a result of US military or diplomatic actions, feel so vengeful.
PJH: You say that as if no other country has an atomic bomb and WE are the only ones justified in using one against our enemies. I guess if Pakistan felt the way you do, they could justify dropping one on us?
There is no justification, or "right" for ever, "blowing ANY SOB's straight to hell and turn their land to ash!: ever again...
Wow what a sell-out of American values, first Iran now this what a turkey! Yes he apologized and sold our veterans and fighting men and women down the river again. Where is the American pride, sorry but this American is once again cowering behind what is obviously the biggest fool EVER to be in our Whitehouse, looking forward to November and then January when 8 years of hell end!
If we had a world without nukes, there'd be one holding an ace in the hole, which would show the stupidity of such an idea... and which country would you trust not to eliminate their arsenal - completely?
What people forget is that the Manhattan Project cost $2 billion ($25 or so in today's dollars) and employed more than 130,000 people. There was no way that Truman was going to decide not to use the bomb, according to many historians.
One country used their weapons to round up and kill 6 million Jews. Another country used their weapons to liberate that same continent from the evils of National Socialism. It's not the weapons, nuclear or otherwise, that makes a point... it's the country's ethics and morals and "context." that makes all the difference.
Wait a minute, what about the countless Chinese and Koreans that were raped and murdered by the Japanese? What about the POWs who were tortured and murdered by the Japanese? Apology? Are you serious?
Yes, Obama wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons, so he signs an agreement allowing Iran, the main exporter of terrorism today, free reign to build them.
For all you naysayers, it's that agreement that Iran said it wouldn't abide by anyway if it wasn't in their best interests. Yep, Obama is some kind of leader all right-useless and feckless.
Isaiah 40:15, Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance, behold: he taketh up the isles as a very small thing.
After firebombing the civilian population of Tokyo the US expanded the attacks to other cities. 58% of Yokohama. Yokohama is roughly the size of Cleveland. 58% of Cleveland destroyed. Tokyo is roughly the size of New York. 51% percent of New York destroyed. 99% of the equivalent of Chattanooga, which was Toyama. 40% of the equivalent of Los Angeles, which was Nagoya. This was all done before the dropping of the nuclear bomb under general LeMay's command; "Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve".
LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals."
You are right- its not "proportional"... Japanese soldiers butchered 30 million innocent men, women, and children... So we should've dropped 200 atomic bombs on japan- that would be "proportional"... and just and morally righteous....
The only reason they didn't bomb our cities is that they couldn't reach them. But they tried floating bombs in balloons in the jet stream. If the Japanese think we shouldn't have bombed the cities, then why did their government wait until after the second bombing to surrender? They wanted to see if we had more than one bomb, because they were not going to give up. What were we supposed to do, invite them to a deserted island for an atomic bomb demonstration? They would have thought it was a propaganda Hollywood style stunt.
Mark, attacking only military targets during a war simply doesn't work. Who supports the military both with labor producing war material, soldiers to fight, and moral support? The citizen populace. Japan would've never surrendered if we hadn't bombed their cities. They were a suicidal culture who believed their emperor was a god. We needed to show them that their emperor was simply a common man who made poor decisions. It was the same way in Germany, we attacked their cities to make the populace question their government and deny them support. You win a war not by killing the most but by degrading your enemies will to fight. Attacking only military targets will not do that.
It's not an issue for adolescent debate. It's simply against the law.
The Lieber Code of April 24, 1863, also known as Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, General Order № 100,or Lieber Instructions, was an instruction signed by President Abraham Lincoln to the Union Forces of the United States during the American Civil War that dictated how soldiers should conduct themselves in wartime. Its name reflects its author, the German-American legal scholar and political philosopher Franz Lieber.
Participants in the international Hague Peace Conferences used Lieber's text as the basis for negotiations which resulted in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These two international agreements set forth laws of land and naval warfare. Subsequently, during World War I and World War II, many of these laws were broken.
Following World War II, jurists at the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials ruled that by 1939 the rules for armed conflicts, particularly those concerning intentionally targeting cicilians and neutral nationals, had been recognized by all civilized nations and thus could apply to officials even of countries that never signed the Hague Conventions. Some features of the Lieber Code are still evident in the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
