Why did America use the Nuclear Weapon against the Japanese and genocide against the native aboriginees?

Question

Why do the American's not say sorry?

Native Americans are Aboriginees and not "Indians" - You americans are sure dumb - Indians come from India. They are called Indians because of some dopey fool that got lost sailing to India and ended up in America - I think they call this dumbass Columbus.

Answer 1

Okay, I apologize for the deficiencies of the American educational system that have led the ignorant bowbs above to assume that "aborigines" only live in Australia. Dopes.
FYI, folks, aborigine means "indigenous peoples." The Chippewa and the Cree and the Ojibway and the Mohican were all "aborigines" in that sense. Grow some brains, for Pete's sake.
But to the question at hand. We do not say we are "sorry" because we are a British-derived nation. We believe that we are right, even when we are manifestly wrong. And we are REAL good at de-humanizing our perceived enemies.
Watch "cowboy and indian" movies, or WWII movies and you will see that Indians are portrayed as screaming savages (for an apt commentary, listen to George Carlin's "Indian Sergeants"). The Japanese were buck-toothed, chromium-yellow, Coke-bottle glasses-wearing sneaky dwarfs with "risping" pidgin English.
Today, Arabs and/or the Islamic world (depending on who's doing the slammng) are less than human stereotypical camel-riding, towel-headed, ululating head-bangers with no culture or intellect beyond that of a goat-herding mad bomber.
That's how come we can avoid being "sorry." You don't feel remorse when you execute a rabid dog. You don't feel sorrow when you kill a mosquito or a viper or a rat. We are stupid enough to buy the propaganda we produce (we believe our own lies!).
Not terribly attractive, as national traits go, but that's what it means to be an "American."
My Kountry, 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, for All White Anglosaxon Christian Males with an Income of Over $70K/Annum.
Cheers.

Answer 2

There are several reasons why the US used the atomic bombs against tne Japanese:

1- As the US moved across the Pacific the Japanese defenders became even more fantical. If you look at most of the island battles, there were very few Japanese captured and taken prisoner because they fought to the death. And the US took very heavy losses in the last major island batte, the invasion of Okinawa, which is a Japnaese island. Estimates were that an invasion of the Japanese home islands could cause as many as 1 million US casualties. So the question was, do we hold off using the bomb (the effects of which we really didn't understand that well) and take huge US casulaties, or do we use the bomb and hopefully end the war with fewer US casualties, never mind how many additional Japanese would have been killed in protracted fighting.

2- The US was very concerned about the ambitions of the Soviet Union. She was alsready making moves in Eastern Europe. There was an agreement that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan once the war ended in Europe. The US figured that if we could end the war with Japan before the Soviets got involved we would not have to deal with the Soviets in developing the post war terms with Japan. Recall how we ended up dividing Germany. As it turned out, The Soviets launched attacks in East Asia agianst the Japanese before the Japanese capitulated. But having used the bomb, placed the US in the position to keep the Soviets out of the process of dictating post war terms on Japan.

Regarding what we knew about the bomb at the time. The US really had no good idea of the actual effects of the bomb. There was only one test before the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was not possible to fully model the effects of the bomb. This was before powerful computers. Everything was calculated using slide rules. The physics of the behavior of the bomb was not know. Prior to the first test in New Mexico, some of the physicists working on the project had concerns that the bomb would ignite all of the oxygen in the atmosphere - the end of life on earth. The radiation effects were also not known. So we really went into this thing blind.

Regarding the morality of using the bomb. All war is immoral. And as others have pointed out, many more civilians were indiscriminately killed in fire bombings. Also, some people like to accuse the US of using the bomb against Japan because of racial prejudice. Recall that the allies also firebomed many German cities (look up the firebombing of Dresden - it was not pretty). Following the war, General Curtiss LeMay, who was in charge of the US strategic bombing campaigns, stated that he was expecting that if the US had lost the war, that he would be tried as a war criminal.

A much shorter answer regarding Native Americans. Native Americans are the indigenous, or aboriginal people of North America. Why the US pursued a policy to exterminate them? The usual, racism, business and political interests, ..... Unfortunately mankind's nature is actually pretty primative. This type of behavior has been going on for millenia. Recall that the names taken by many indigenous people for themselves means "Human" or "Man" or "the people" in their language, with the implication that the "Others" are in some way "less human". This makes killing, oppressing, enslaving them, somewhat more acceptable. Just look at how Southern preachers found passages in the Bible to justify slavery. We just THINK that we are more sophisticated and have overcome our primitve animal instincts.

Answer 3

I hate that there was slavery in America, and that white folks reneged on their promises of peace to Native Americans, and that Europeans brought virulant diseases to vulnerable native people, and that we've committed many atrocities to grab and keep more land and wealth but we've also aided many countries financially and entered WWII only when provoked by attacks on US territory. Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a horrible thing but, quite honestly, the kinder and gentler war is also the most prolonged. I doubt that Japan would have restrained themselves from using atomic bombs if they'd had them ready before we did. Actually,all peoples and races have a lot to answer for. China and Russia have terrorized their own people past endurance. The Slavic countries and Turks have slaughtered and tortured each other over the centuries. Every Asian and Western country has a history of mistreating Jews. African nations had and continue to have genocidal wars among tribes. Native Americans themselves were plagued by constant tribal warfare. Japan's wars with Russia and China weren't gentle negoitations. Spain's cruelty to native people in South America was horrific, and Britian seemingly conquered everything and "civilized" it only to lose almost all of it. In ancient times, Rome's armies conquered the known world and tried to assimilate it. It seems as though this is a problem with humanity rather than a single country.
As for wondering why we don't apologize, why don't all these folks apologize to each other?
Why don't the Japanese apologize to America for the forced death marches and concentration camps in the South Pacific. Why don't the Germans apologize for the Holocaust? Why don't the British apologize to India and South Africa and Rhodesia? Why don't the French apologize for their atrocities in Indo-China? Why don't the Spanish----okay enough already.
The problem is human cruelty, human greed and human pride.

Answer 4

More people died in the firebombing of Tokyo than in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even more would have died during a full scale invasion of the Japanese home islands. In a sense, those two fission bombs saved Japanese culture by forcing an early end to a war that would have completely destroyed it.
As for the aboriginal people of America (who were constantly at war with each other long before the "White man " came here), I'm sure that if you honestly look into the history of your own people you will find atrocities that make the westward expansion of the US pale in comparison. What were your beloved Japanese doing to people in southwest Asia? what did the Spaniards do to all aborigines of north America. What did Stalin do to the Ukraine and Poland? What did the Caliphate do to Spain and Eastern Europe that touched off the Crusades?
What happened to Persian culture, did they peacefully convert to Islam? what about the phoenicians? In 1500 years how many cultures were completely obliterated by Islam? How many Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans? How many Slavic people were taken or bought into slavery in Europe or in the Islamic world?

Notice I haven't even mentioned Hitler yet . . .

Answer 5

An atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the Japanese refused to surrender during WWII. Three days later, when the Japanese still failed to surrender, another bomb was dropped. About 120,000 were killed.

This was a terrible thing to do! Bear in mind that many more innocent people had already been bombed in Germany and in the UK and other countries during World War II. For example, 43,000 were killed in London just during The Blitz bombings in '40-'41, and many tens of thousands more after that. The US and UK bombed the heck out of tiny little Hamburg, Germany, killing 40,000. That was just ONE small city. There were many small cities that were bombed during the war, by both sides.

War is bad. Nobody apologises. The reason the Americans dropped the bombs was to stop the years and years and years of fighting. They believed that they had to either bomb Japan or invade Japan, and bombing was a better option.

Answer 6

I just love this kind of thinking. So a group of people declare war on the USA (who cares what race they are) & we are the bad guys? Did you know that Germany had delivered radio active material to Japan & they were planning to use it on us for christmas? No not as a bomb but in ballons & fly them over the west coast & let people die real slow.

As for the Natives, would that be the Indians? The loving people who never hurt a fly? The ones that did not war other tribes, take food, slaves, horses & land from those weaker then they were? Those indians? The US has not done anything that any other country or race of people has not done. Oh wait I take that back, after WW II we gave every thing back where Russia made it their own. Now that the US is the SOLE Super Power they do not start WW III & claim the planet.

Answer 7

We did not use Nuclear Weapons against Japan, we used Atomic, there is a huge difference, and at the time, it save most likely about 5 million deaths both military and civilian on both sides which is the estimate if the U.S. had to invade Japan to stop the war. As for the native Aborigines, they were called Indians and yes they were almost killed to extinction. At the time, it was believed that the white man was the highest life form and blacks, redskins, yellow skins, and any other was not equal to them. Therefore it was their divine right to take the land. Remember America was not the only country that did this, look at Spain, their history at the time was not all that good either.

Answer 8

YES The Hiroshima thing was horrid
but
it's nothing compared to the damage that Japanese had caused to the rest of the world.

Did the Japanese apologize for Pearl Harbor?
Did Japanese apologize for raping females and childs in Asia country during that time (Korea, China, Indonesia, etc)?
Did younger Japan generation got history subject in school?

If USA never react (the Hiroshima atomic bomb never happened), would japan end the war?

Just curious if you really go thru the japanese cruelty during the WWII.

Answer 9

The dropping of the bomb was controversial. Sure, it killed many people, but many people would have died anyway if the war kept going and we did nothing. Many of our soldier's lives would have been lost. Japan would have lost many soldiers too. The Japanese kept fighting, and if we did not drop the bomb, the Axis could have taken over the war. It also showed that we would strike anyone who dares attack us. The attacked us at home at Pearl Harbor, so we nuked them and won the war. Us and Japan are now good friends and that has gone behind us. They sre not angry at us anymore. The Native Americans were not killed by genocide by Americans. The were killed by genocide of the British settlers. The British came and killed them off, because the natives were violent. We, the Americans, killed many Native Americans, but it was in war, not attacks on villages. They were getting violent and killing many innocent settlers, so we had to defend the settlers and fight the barbaric Natives. I am not saying it was right, but that was hundreds of years ago, and they forgive us. All of that is behind us now.

Answer 10

Were the Americans in Australia?
You'll need to study through the many books written by the atrocities committed by the Japanese - or see a film. I think the Bridge over the River Kwai might give you an indication.
If you mean the American Indians, yes, I think they were badly treated. Luckily we move on, learn from our mistakes and do not go on harking back to the past and reopening old wounds.