do any americans loose sleep over hiroshima and the death of a 100000 people ?

Answer 1

They bloody should!!!! They weren't interested in 'the war on terror' or have any association with the terrorism others were encountering until 9/11, as soon as something happens to them they are 'the hard done to ones' They couldn't give a s**te when the IRA were bombing the UK mainland, if I remember right many of the Yanks were IRA sympathisers. They made a mountain out of Vietnam, made it look like they won WW2 and generally make a drama out of everything and want sympathy for it too.
To Thomas R (below) I worry every night, can't sleep, currently taking 75mg Prozac plus Nitol and still it's there at the back of my mind.
I think I may have touched a nerve, don't like it when the truth comes to smack them in the face these Yanks.
I believe, if memory serves me right, the Brits were defending The Falkland Isles from Argentinian invasion during the 80S, defending their people who were living there, there's a difference you know.
Not familiar with the IRA, how convenient.

Answer 2

I am not American but when Japan invaded they mostly
killed soldeirs not civilians but the U.S killed so many unarmed
people and should be ashamed for it. Although many do say that
one day America will feel bad they did such a thing and I
think the time is close since there are so much tensions in
North Korea, Iran etc. But history is history. And to this day the U.S.A does not relize that a rival has saved them. Japan
made an atomic weapon to use on the U.S.A and Russias
bombing of Nagasaki caused Japans surrender or else America
would have lost. But maybe in the near future America will
have diificulties with North Korea, Russia, China, Iran
and Japan, Germany and Italy will come to our aid.

Answer 3

I do not know, assuming you are British you can answer me this and most likely it will be the same answer. How much sleep do you loose over the 25,000 Americans lost during the Revolutionary war? 8000 of those perished at the hands of the British as POWs, 17000 enemies of Britain perished in the African Theatre of WWI another 2000 in the Sinai Palestine Campaign, 11,000,000 people of the WWII Axis powers perished 650 enemy combatants died at the hands of the British during the Falkland Islands War against Argentina. Do not ask stupid questions like that unless you are from a country that has never engaged in war. The UK, Great Britain, England, however you say it depending on which period of time you are referring to is a much older country and therefore has a longer heritage to criticise which we as Americans share that heritage prior to 1776 and we wont go into any war casualties prior to that as I am sure my point is made. I am not familiar with the events of the IRA but I am not a fan of any needless bloodshed regardless of the side.

Answer 4

Yes. I have visited the Hiroshima war memorial at least 3 times, when I was living in Japan. The real question is why Nagasaki?? 3 days was not an honest time frame to give a country time to respond. that was what really blew the US cover. it was planned all along, so we could test out our new weapons.

Answer 5

I believe it is fair to say that any major nation in the past has commited one atrocity or another, Hitlers Germany (I'm German by the way), Stalins USSR, British atrocities to many of the peoples of its empire, Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki (though maybe that was justified, I don't know, I'm torn), Rwanda and many, many other tragic episodes in our history.

I don't think that aportioning blame or expecting the future generations of a nation to accept responsibility for the actions of their forefathers is the way to go. No, I believe we should LEARN from their actions, see where humanity went wrong on that ocassion and try not to let it ever happen again.

Answer 6

I sleep like a baby with 100,000 crispy critters singing me to sleep. Do you think the Japanese sleep well after the rape of Nan king,the medical experiments on POW'S,systematic elimination of innocent prisoners? The death of 1 person is no less significant than the deaths of 1 million

Answer 7

Not sure if they do or don't! I wonder after all the rhetoric I have heard, if they lose sleep over funding the I.R.A so they could wage a war against innocent civilians in England and Ulster for over 30 years? Let me know so I can tell my buddies when I next visit their graves!

Answer 8

At least it's remembered. The firebombing of Tokyo was in some ways worse, and the majority of the victims were young mothers and children under five years old. All sides in WWII bombed population centers. Every country that engaged in bombing is equally culpable.

Answer 9

Do Germans lose sleep over slaughtering 13 million defenseless people during WWII. Do Italians and Japanese people, (And Polish as well) lose sleep by supporting this reign of evil by looking the other way?

Answer 10

Probably not many, if any. Japan declared war on us. Actually, Japan attacked us and THEN declared war on us. To stop Japan, we were going to have to invade and it would've cost the lives of even more people. So we actually saved lives by doing it.

And, besides, if you don't want America coming down on you, don't attack America. And, in this day and age, that includes the training, housing, and financing of terrorists. We're nice people, we just don't take kindly to being attacked.