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Originally Posted by Dezzy
But would we be any different if we lived under the same government as they did back then? I don't think we would be. We would be the same, just doing what we can in fear of our lives.
I also don't think any country was innocent when it came to cruelty in WW2, like I said before we demonised them as much as they demonised us. I doubt we treated PoWs any better but since we were the victors I'm guessing such cases were glossed over when it came to the history books.
Either way nothing justifies Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the bombing of cities is cowardly and the willful murder of civilians is the ultimate cowardice, especially considering that Japan was on the ropes. We played a part in killing thousands of civilians and damning generations of innocent people yet to be born to crippling illnesses and disease. Nothing justifies that response and it's no surprise that we're apologetic to Japan to this day over it. How many government and Army officials that would have been behind Pearl Harbour and the torturing of prisoners were in those cities compared to innocent civilians?
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You're very wrong to compare the British treatment of prisoners to the treatment meted out by Germany and especially Japan.
You forget how many millions of civilians suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis and the Japanese. And not just suffered and died... were tortured, or worked to death, then shot when they were no longer needed. Women, children, treated like animals. I don't condone the use of nuclear weapons, but I truly believe in this case, it was for the greater good. And had the Japanese - or the Germans - had nuclear weapons, do you think they would have hesitated for
one minute to use them against us?
Really Dezzy, I respect you very much, you know that. But I have to say you need to look into the actions that led to Hiroshima. Unless you feel that the only humans that are worth anything are Japanese.
And before you say we're right to be apologetic to the Japanese, please... take some time to read some prisoners' accounts of their life under the Japanese. How these men, mostly dead now, woke up screaming night after night, remembering the horrors they saw and were put through. And then we can talk more if you want. But right now, I don't feel like you are in charge of all the facts.