Was the use of the atomic bomb against Japan justified?

[TheMadMonk]

91. Our behaviour WRT Africa, the Middle East and large chunks of SE Asia...

...not to mention our treatment of our own most vulnerable citizenry (And I include White Australian treatment of the Koories), to this very day, would suggest that this is no distortion.

Going back to centuries past, children (and the elderly) were generally were the first to suffer, and suffered the most, under seiges.

Fifteen million children around the world die of starvation every year, right bloody now, simply because there is no good, compelling reason for them not to; because there is no advantage to keeping them alive.

Of course we did not drop those bombs to SAVE the lives of myriad Japanese children. Where's the fucking profit in that? However, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Japanese children and oldsters who almost certainly would have died under a protracted seige, only lived because those bombs (or at least the first) were dropped.