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In reply to the discussion: Some facts on dropping the two bombs [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)keep harping on a non context line, that is a matter of belief.
You cannot counter any of what I posted, because this is what you are doing.. I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU.
The discussion on WHY they were dropped is a worthy one to have. But once again, tell me, what makes these killed 90,000166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,00080,000 in Nagasaki, so special over the 100 million killed over the course of the war, half of them at least civilian?
They are not special son. They are the last casualties of the war. We should strive NOT TO DO THAT AGAIN, but in the context of the war... they are not that special.
Here, for your comparison
Tokyo
97,000 killed and 125,000 wounded.
Dresden
Between 22,000 and 25,000 people were killed.
Then we have the Battle of Britain.
We also have the Japanese actions in Indo China and the Holocaust.
So tell me, what makes these civilians so special? I will tell you what? They were the last to die in the war... you understand? And the bombs, the two A-Bombs, the damage they did was not even close to what was done to the city of Tokyo alone.
You chose to live ignorant of history. I will once again challenge you to do some reading. Strategic bombing, and it is not an excuse, it is reality, reached it's final stage on August sixth 1945.