I'm pretty sure that if the bombs weren't dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, none of my family would be here today. My father wasn't a Truman fan, but he always--ALWAYS--revered the decision to drop the bombs. The Dummies? They play what if...
usGovOwesUs3Trillion (1,607 posts)
Imagine How Many Lives Would Have Been Saved IF We Had Accepted Japans 1 Condition Earlier?
No Okinawa, or Iwo?
No nuclear arms race?
No cold war?
After we ran out of nukes, and the soviets invaded, we finally accepted that 1 condition.
Japan would have continued to fight on if we hadn't.
It was a wise decision, it should have happened earlier though, but politics demanded the SHOCK & AWE.
The Japanese only surrendered when their one condition was met, when we FINALLY accepted their 1 condition, and the Chrysanthemum Throne stands in testament to the wisdom of that decision, as the oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world to this very day... too bad we didn't accept it earlier.
Some DUmmies aren't buying it...
Cali_Democrat (16,232 posts)
5. Imagine how many lives would have been saved if Japan had never invaded China
Millions.
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Response to Cali_Democrat (Reply #5)Tue Aug 6, 2013, 07:40 PM
branford (137 posts)
16. or if the never bombed Pearl Harbor . . .
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Response to branford (Reply #16)Tue Aug 6, 2013, 07:41 PM
Posteritatis (17,767 posts)
17. If they never attacked China they probably wouldn't have attacked the western Allies. (nt)
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Response to Posteritatis (Reply #17)Tue Aug 6, 2013, 07:43 PM
branford (137 posts)
19. I fully agree. "What if" games are just pointless.
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Response to branford (Reply #19)Tue Aug 6, 2013, 07:45 PM
Posteritatis (17,767 posts)
20. But what if they weren't?
*ducks and scurries away, dodging thrown objects*
