Originally Posted by
fred
We must never forget the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, never pretend it wasn't an attrocity, never try to excuse it and never ever let it happen again.
did a man not once say: "the man who forgets history repeats it". it may have been said about the persecution of jews by hitler, but i think it syas alot.
also, the bombing stopped the war with japan, and a lot of people, proably more than wat was killed by the bombs, would have died at the hands off both US and Japanesse soldiers. The way the people at Hiroshima and Nagaski is died is as horrible a way to die as any, but there deaths were justified and could be seen as a necessary sacrifice.
It is hard to just death, but in the cases of H and N, i think it is justified. In war some live some die, or to coin a popular phrase, "u win some and u lose some", a win i think...
"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance, and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns." ~ Tom Waits
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