How Do You Justify US Atomic Bombs Over Japan, Bombs over Iraq, and elswhere!?

Question

What is honest and true justification of the US Goverment for dropping two attomic bombs over Japan, killing over two hundred thousands innocent people; or sixity years wars and conspiracy against all lawful goverments?

Answer 1

I think dropping atom bombs on anyone is crazy and cannot be justified. I'm not sure, but someone told me once that Japan was losing the war anyway, so this event (2 bombs) was for more than retaliation against the Japanese and stopping the war. It was some kind of signal perhaps. I doubt I'll see the US government apologize to Japan for this in my lifetime (I was born in 1951), but it would be an appropriate gesture.
We need to get rid of all the atom bombs, or at least reduce (not put them in storage) the number of bombs to 100 for each nuclear power or less. Robert McNamara, former Secretary of State said that is all that is needed for deterrence.
As far as Iraq goes, I was against it before it even happened. Our American soldiers and Iraqi civilians are losing their lives for less than nothing. Even the CIA admits it has caused the security in the region to deteriorate. Perhaps going after Osama is more reasonable, but we let him slip through our fingers so many times. It looks like we're not even trying to catch him.

Answer 2

Because of the tone of your question I don't think you have a real interest in taping into the mindset of President Harry Truman, or any President since then with respect to the decisions that they've made in office, rather than spue out your obvious animous against the U.S.A. There has never been a sixty year war, at least not one that the U.S. has been involved in. I'm not sure by what you mean when you say "conspiracy against all lawful governments".

Back to the original question which is not hard to answer. Towards the end of world war two, after America liberated Europe from the Nazi's, the recipients of America's military support decided not to help America win the war in the Pacific against Japan. The task of ending Japanese agression was up to America alone. Japan was backed into a corner and refused to surrender. The alternative to dropping the two atomic bombs was a full scale invasion of Japan. If that happened it was estimated that one million American solidiers would have been killed. In order two save a million Americans Harry Truman ordered the first a-bomb to be dropped. Afterwards Truman gave Japan yet another chance to surrender. When they didn't he ordered the dropping of the second one.

Truman bluffed and told the japanese gov. that America had more, and was going to continue dropping these bombs if they didn't surrender, but in reality America only had two. The japanese believed him and finally surrendered. One million lives were spared at the expense of 212,000. Its sad, but this world is sad. Trumans obligation was to protect American lives not Japanese lives.

Answer 3

You're second guessing a decision made in 1945 with 2006 knowledge and sensibilities. The justification for using the atomic bomb on Japan has nothing to do with the 60 years of history that followed. You also can't evaluate that decision without first knowing the history of the war prior to 1945.

Answer 4

Well, you have to understand that during WWII, President Truman was very keen on not prolonging the war and increasing American casualties, so the U.S. government decided to develop a secret weapon so that war could ultimately be ended. The atomic bomb was designed with Germany in mind, but when Japan refused to unconditionally surrender, it was used on them instead.

Thus, the atomic bombs used on Japan were, essentially, a precaution and an act of self-defense.

In essence, it's all really for the good of the American people.

Answer 5

Why don't you look up the rape of Nanking? You don't have a clue who the Japanese were back in WWII, do you? Those little islands had become a huge machine of destruction. There were no innocents there at that time. You are confused because you live in a country that practices war by rules. We are no longer a "win at any cost" society.

Is your head so full of conspiracies that you can't sleep? Your question is really paranoid and not based on history.

Answer 6

It was that, or we could have - at the additional cost of thousands of American and Japanese casualties - simply invaded the Japanese mainland. The Japanese were not anywhere near ready to throw in the towel.
The bombs ended the war, period.

Do you really believe that Iraq was a "lawful government?"

"lawful" : 1 a : being in harmony with the law b : constituted, authorized, or established by law : RIGHTFUL

Answer 7

You can't justify that kind of violence.

One fact that a lot of Westerners don't know is that there were a lot of Koreans in Hiroshima that were killed by that atom bomb. First, you go after the head honchos, not the people. Then, if you didn't get that understood and decide to go for the people of a country, you should at least go for the natives, not the nextdoor neighbours brought over as slave labour.

Part of the reason why the U.S. is so paranoid about anybody else having nukes is because they themselves are the only country in the world to have actually used them on people!!

For some reason, too many Americans can't even see this.

The reason why the U.S. is continually at war is because it continually perpetuates violence. And that doesn't just mean the wars that everybody hears about, but it also means the little missions they have from time to time that the general public never really pays much attention to.

Answer 8

So a liberal like yourself would have place to voice your opinion. Why do think so we could scare the world. Didn't the Japs bomb Pearl Harbor????? To end a war where over a Million American men and women had already been killed. We should just nuke Iraq and then nuke Korea then Iran and Pakistan and everyone that talks smack about the American way of life. I say love it or learn to glow....
pansy
move to Canada

Answer 9

We killed more in the fire bombing of Tokyo than in either of the nuke attacks. Do you feel better about those killings?

Saddam was ousted because he threatened to nuke his neighbors until the very end. If he'd have stopped those threats, and allowed UN inspections (instead of throwing the inspectors out) he's be happily torturing his citizens in one of his palaces right now... which would not doubt make you happy too.

Dude, stop drinking the sour koolaid! Or, go post at DailyKOS, where they welcome such rants.

Answer 10

might you have enjoyed to maintain WWII going and characteristic tens of millions of greater harmless people killed by the jap and German? Thats how we justify the atom bombs over japan. to end WWII the place tens of millions of people died to maintain freedom. shall we no longer forget approximately that the Axis needed quite international domination, there became no longer a non violent decision.