HardTimes99
HardTimes99's JournalCommit War Crimes? Go Free. Reveal War Crimes? 35 Years. Makes sense to
me.
This country is some seriously sick, fucked-up shit is all I can say. Well, it was a nice idea, I guess. I lived to see the fall of the USSR, so I suppose it's only fitting that I witness the senescence of the American experiment as well.
If Truman refused to use the atomic bomb on Japan, what should he have done instead?
I think that HST arguably had 2 other options:
1) Naval and aerial quarantine of Japanese home islands
2) Conventional land invasion.
After what imperial Japan had done to its Asian neighbors, were options 1 or 2 preferable to using atomic weapons?
I consider myself radically anti-war (and spent much of the past decade in twice- and thrice-weekly anti-war vigils against the Bush Junta), but I think there are certain times when wars must be fought (World War II being one such case). I think President Truman chose properly among a set of bad choices. He made the least-bad choice. But I think those who criticize the use of atomic weapons against Japan should explain what other choice he might have had or made.
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