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In reply to the discussion: In Hiroshima, Kerry will not apologize for atomic bombs dropped on Japan [View all]Hulk
(6,699 posts)Easy to project today on what was one of the most brutal and aggressive nations in the history of the world.
We did drop the first, with NO affect. It was horrendous, but they didn't succumb until after the second, and you can only guess at whether they would have finally surrendered if they weren't being routed across the Pacific at great cost to young Americans.
A land invasion would have ultimately resulted in hundreds of thousands of American lives being lost, and probably millions more civilians' deaths. Look at how the invasion of Germany cost millions of Germans everything they had, including millions of casualties, and thousands of American lives.
We didn't start that fook'n war, and they refused to surrender. It's a shame what transpired, but the blame for that terrible bomb landing on their own population rests squarely on the brutal, war mongering savages that started the war and destruction, and Japan was responsible for the slaughter of innocent lives all across Asian for nearly a decade.
They brought it on themselves, and We never need to apologize for their errors in history. Never!