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Yes you can. Hiroshima was in the midst of a full blown state vs. state war, in which the US was not the aggressor against Japan. While it is true that it was
by themartorana 11y ago
Yes you can.
Hiroshima was in the midst of a full blown state vs. state war, in which the US was not the aggressor against Japan.
While it is true that it was hoped the atomic bomb would be as useful psychologically as it was physically, there is no true comparison here, and this is argumentative for the sake of trying to make a point.
- aianus 11y ago> there is no true comparison here You're right, the Hiroshima attack in itself was worse in terms of the death and suffering of innocents than all Islamic terrorism of the past 20 years put together.
- grandalf 11y agoTrue. Ironically, it's generally understood by Americans that this was done to break Japan's will to continue fighting. It worked. Everything we do in war is to break the will of the enemy to continue. Thus unless we expect one side to nobly surrender, we ought to expect the most extreme atrocities to occur in war. When you think about it, it's silly to draw an arbitrary distinction of humane combat, since if we really wanted to be humane we'd have our leaders compete in chess boxing or something that would minimize the destruction of property and loss of life.