[Livia]

Originally Posted by AProducer'sWetDream

But were the innocent citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki responsible for these atrocities? Two wrongs don't make a right- the horrific acts of violence on civilians by the Japanese army shouldn't have been met by a horrific act of violence on civilians by the US army, but instead should have been responded to by destroying the weapons, infrastructure and ideology that caused these atrocities in the fist place.

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.