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"weary" wrote: "B2431" wrote in message ... From: "weary" Besides, I have never asked nor do I want my government to kill civilians so that I can sleep safe at night. As a matter of fact, if I knew that is what my government was doing, I would not sleep safe at night. Tell ya what, get the bad guys to move their military targets away from civilian populations and the civilians will stop dying. That is true for all countries and organizations including the U.S. and Al Quaida. Your insistance that civilians were deliberatly targeted in Hiroshima and Nagasaki would only hold water if the military targets were no where near civilian population centers. In Hiroshima the aiming point was in a largely residential area and the targetting selection required that the military target be in a large urban area. I ask again, how would YOU have taken out the military targets in Nagasaki and Hiroshima without harming civilians. Conventional bombing and I haven't claimed that no civilians would be harmed so don't you try that strawman as well. As a Jew I take offense at your comparing Dachau to Hiroshima. When did I do that? Many thousands of humans died there, not just Jews, but I have been there and have seen the grave markers. Many thousands of Japanese civilians died in Hiroshima. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired Look, accurate conventional bombing was not possible in 1945, and the only way of knocking out Japan's major industries, cottage industry, and adjacent military targets was by low-level fire raids at night. B-29s attempted daylight precision bombing of such targets from Nov '44 to March of '45. It didn't work. LeMay was right: it HAD TO BE DONE. He knew the civilian casualties would be high, but it was necessary to accomplish the mission assigned him: the destruction of Japan's industry to support the war, and destruction of such military targets colocated with the industries. More people died in a single fire raid on Tokyo than were killed in the two nuclear strikes put together. You still haven't answered the question: what would you have done? I'll refresh your options 1) Bombing in combination with Blockade 2) Invasion of Kyushu in Nov 45 followed by Invasion of Kanto Plain Mar 46 3) Open military use of the Atomic Bomb Diplomacy IS NOT AN OPTION. Unconditional Surrender is the goal. Nothing less than total acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration. So answer the question: what would YOU have done in Truman's place in ending the war with a minimum loss of Allied and Japanese lives? To me, it's simple: drop the bomb and prevent the bloodbath on Kyushu come November. Posted via www.My-Newsgroups.com - web to news gateway for usenet access! |
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