What is a bigger American tragedy 9/11 or dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Question

You call 150,000 innocent civilians dead a success, you are truly sick in the head!

What Is wrong wrong with you people. America killed over 150,000 innocent civilians in the blink of an eye and you act like they deserved it.

I am truly horrified by how heartless all of your responses are.

There is absolutely no way to prove that millions more would have died. Hitler was already gone at that point. Your just repeating what you've been brainwashed to believe.

You people are totally disgusting. Just because they weren't American doesn't mean they don't count as people.

You guys are right, I guess 3,000 dead is way more tragic than 150,000, my bad.

WOW, I think you all need to go to church and pray to God he forgives you for being so heartless. I expected a little bit of empathy for the innocent civialians, but you all see it as some kind of victory that they died. UNREAL

Answer 1

FDR and Truman killed about 3 million innocent kids and their moms.

Sad.

Answer 2

What youre forgetting is that carpet-bombing was a way of life and a way of war back then. Nukes were just taking it a step further.

We have become a bit more sophisticated since then and I think western nations realize that we need to be more precise in the future.

But 2 compare 9/11 to our deployment of nuclear weapons is rather absurd. WE used them during a time of war against a fierce and determined enemy that attacked us first.

9/11 on the other hand was not a military strike, but a terrorist strike on a civilian target. Perhaps if you hated terrorism as much as you did America, we wouldnt be having this talk.

Answer 3

The Japanese Emperor mis calculated the extent the US was willing to go to stop their penetration. We invaded on their soil and devastated their population. Warnings were given yet they fought US and started suicide bombers out of desperation using pride as a weapon. What they threw at the US was brutal. Naval battles we lost big time. Dropping bombs were desperate attempts. Burning up 3/4ths of Japan was a shock that finally stopped the Emperor.
My friends Father was the Chaplain that oversaw the surrender on the Nimitz. I helped escort her into Honolulu
on my Dad's boat. History.
9=11 was a second strike again on US soil. that in my opinion is the only similarity here... The tragedy is lest we learn from history we are bound to repeat it.

PS US money paid dearly to rebuild Japan and make her the economic mega master she is today. We pay our debts.

Answer 4

I don't think you can compare these tragedies. 911 was the first major attack on our shores and it had a tremendous mental effect, but it could not be as severe as what happen to the Japanese.
dropping the bombs ended the largest and most deadly period in our worlds history. how many more people would have died if it would not have been done? the Japanese were the aggressors and showed no signs of ending their attempt to destroy the US.
I think it would be more appropriate to say that dropping the bombs was a more important tragedy in that although it took many innocent lives it probably saved many, many more.

Answer 5

Well, the bigger American tragedy is 9/11, since it is the only one in your list that happened to America.

And the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a success regardless of how many people died of it. It ended WWII, which was the goal of the bombing, hence making it a success. And by bombing them, it saved many more lives than what would have been taken in a full scale invasion.

Answer 6

The crime of War of dropping nukes over Hiroshima and Nagasaky was aimed at preventing an insurrection of Japanese proletariat against the rigth wing Govt Japan had.
As Japanese Army was deffeated , Soviets appeared in Japan, proletariat recognices when the ruling class has not the power anymore , think that Russian forces were also recovering Russian land in the North of Japan.
The same objective had the bombings by Usa nd England of the German city of Dresden.

Answer 7

Comparing the two is like comparing a woman getting beating and raped to a bank robber getting shot as he tries to escape, who my friend is the victim?
According to your logic the bank robber is, I know first hand the Japanese thought process they in that era worshipped the emporor, they were so proud they would never lay down and surrender, in bombing them we actually saved lives, How?
By if we invaded the Japanese Island the whole population would have fought to the death, they would have lost millions.
I can never get over how many STUPID questions are posed, all it takes is a little common sense and we can eliminate most of these ridiculous rants.

I mean cmom, if one nation is attacked they have the right to respond, if they do respond the responsibility is on the attackers not the victim of the attack.
WAKE UP!!!!

Answer 8

Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the WW2

911 is a catalyst to WW3

Answer 9

The Bomb ended a long horrifically brutal war that killed millions, it was better (probably for both sides) than an invasion of Japan would have been, and certainly saved countless American lives that would have been lost in such an invasion.

9/11 was a terrorist attack that killed 3000 inocent people, and started a war that's killed thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) more. It's more comparable to Pearl Harbor, with the important difference that Pearl Harbor was a legitimate military target (and the 'sneak attack' aspect at Pearl was supposed to have been a mistake).

Answer 10

The attack on the 9-11 was unprovoked. Lets look at your kids or little kids. If there was a struggle constantly going on between your kid and another and it was being figured out,wouldn't it be different if someone just came up and sluggged your kid hard in the face for no reason or no reason your kid knew about ?

Answer 11

The Japanese started the war and were prepared to fight to the last person, thats why they didn't surrender after the first bomb was dropped. An all out invasion could have cost millions of lives dropping nukes on them saved Japan no less than 5,000,000 lives and many American lives .................. the only thing that is worse than all those combined is that your mom didn't flush you down the toilet after you queefed out of her?