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Originally Posted by Livia
Oppenheimer agrees... and so do I.
How many civilians died at Nanking? Where's the thread calling the Japanese cowards - which they were, without a doubt. How many civilians died in the Blitz? Where's the thread calling that an atrocity? I'm sorry Dezzy, but if those are your real feelings about this I would say, with respect, you really need to look at WW2 a little closer, in particular the Japanese part in it. And also ask yourself... had Japan had the bomb, would they have used it? And if you answer answer honestly your answer will be yes, undoubtedly they would.
Warfare involving only military personnel ended a century ago. Everyone fights a war now. And in WW2 the whole population of countries contributed to their country's war effort and all were targets. I don't say that's right or just, I say it's how it is.
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Nanking was an awful and unforgivable situation but I fail to see how that justifies bombing and killing over 200,000 civilians and leaving many of the survivors civilians with serious health issues that affected their families for generations. Why do you think that one atrocity justifies another? Why should the citizens in a dictatorship be held accountable for their government's actions?
I fully understand Japan's role in WW2, and like I said before, the government needed to be dealt with but bombing the civilians who were simply born in the wrong country is not justified, nor will it ever be. If the shoe was on the other foot, I really doubt you'd think that 'everyone fights a war' if it was us that was bombed. You would think it was an atrocity and you would be right to think that.
The nuking of Japan was evil, pathetic and cowardly and hypocritical rationalising won't change that fact.