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Originally Posted by lostalex

but you are one of the people making it seem like anything that anyone says about Japan, is some sort of attack on Japanese people. You are not being fair to the people who have made legitimate comments about Japan as a nation during that time period.

That's not my aim whatsoever nor what I've even been discussing? We've lost sight of the point (was there ever one? ) - dropping nuclear bombs has never and will never be a positive course of action, in my opinion. As Japan is the only country in the world to have been the victim of a nuclear bombing (on two occasions) I can see why you think that means I'm defending the Japanese people, but I'm not really, I'd think it was wrong if they were dropped on any country's territory in an act of aggression. It was an unnecessarily overwhelming course of action that sought to destroy Japan, not beat it into submission, but destroy it. The US government was ruthless in its approach and showed no regard for the Japanese people. I find that wrong. That doesn't mean I therefore think it was okay that the Japanese people committed atrocities in the war, there isn't always a right and wrong perspective in every situation. Japan did some ****ty things and the USA responded with two almighty ****tier things that have destroyed Japanese lives and land for generations to come. I hope that the world has learned from this lesson and we'll never see that repeated ever again.