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Originally Posted by Livia
It's very easy to sit in the comfort of a free country seventy years on and say what should and shouldn't have been done. Civilians were bombed all over Europe, all over the world. The war had been raging for six long, bloody years. If there had been a more effective way of getting rid of the Japanese war machine then I'm sure that would have been considered but the truth is, there wasn't another way that didn't involve years more struggle, years more war, hundreds of thousands more deaths. All I'm saying is, when you're viewing the people of Japan as innocent victims, try to view the civilian victim of Japan as innocent too.
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Hmm... I understand your point and I don't condemn the people who made these decisions- it was obviously a horrific one to make and it is very easy in hindsight to criticise. And I should make clear that I definitely see the civilian victims of Japanese
soldiers as innocent. I just think it's important to make a distinction between the actions of a country's military and the ordinary civilians. I would hate to be judged by the actions of our army and government's foreign policy because I strongly disagree with a lot of our involvement in foreign countries.