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The onus was on Japan to surrender immediately, not for the US to be patient. You don’t punch your aggressor once and wait to see what he’s going to do next. Yo
by GiorgioG 4y ago
The onus was on Japan to surrender immediately, not for the US to be patient. You don’t punch your aggressor once and wait to see what he’s going to do next. You beat him with overwhelming force until he’s incapacitated or he waves the white flag.
- afandian 4y agoThis isn't simply "your aggressor" this is hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#/media/File:Nagasaki_-_person_burned.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
- GiorgioG 4y agoPlenty of civilians have paid for their government’s own poor choices. I’m not sorry we did this. We were at war, a war we didn’t ask for.
- bobkazamakis 4y ago