>>>Nice try - and also irrelevant.
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>>>Ask yourself whether it would have been in our interest to leave the Japanese regime in power in 1945 - to continue preaching religious militarism and training kamikaze. The best thing the USA did (and in the long run, the kindest thing for the Japanese) was to burn that regime to the ground.
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>>Kevin, this is just plain ridiculous.
>>Throwing nuke on Japan was crime against humanity by any measure.
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>It's popular these days to try to apply the "benefit of hindsight" to war time events, and label them as "crimes against humanity".
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>When I was a teenager, I tried your opinion on my parents, who were children growing up in southern England (Isle of Wight) during WWII. My dad said, "But, it was war!" I said, "So, what?" In response, they pointed out to me some of the realities of unrestricted warfare:
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>- They were both bombed out of their homes. If they hadn't been at shelters in response to air raid warnings, they would have been killed
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>- The major naval base of Portsmouth is close to the IOW and was heavily targeted by bombing raids, and later by V1 "doodlebugs", primitive cruise missiles. The V1s, especially, were frightening because no-one knew where they were "supposed" to go, they were unreliable and inaccurate, and even if they were working "properly" RAF pilots would sometimes shoot them down into your neighbourhood.
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>- Whether true or not, there was widespread fear that the Germans were targeting the civilian population by dropping booby-trapped pens, toys etc.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/29/a4477629.shtml
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>Basically, because you resisted the enemy, the enemy was trying to kill you. There was no UN, no "peacekeepers" or observers to make sure everyone "played fair".
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>Anything your armed forces could do to take the enemy down, preferably hard and fast, met with pretty much universal enthusiastic approval.
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>Once you understand this context, it's no wonder my parents feel, to this day, that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. They understand how someone who has not lived under unrestricted war could feel the way you do, but to them that opinion is literally ignorant.

Well they are just plain wrong, although I can understand why they feel way they feel. .
Ignorance is when nukes are aproved nowdays by people who never withnessed any war. Well fed, 6 pack consumer, sitting on sofa and watching TV, can very easily aprove nukes flying in any direction other then his own. This is how many people are, and why war is keep on happening all over again and again.


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>The NKs have nothing to gain by nuking anyone.
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Agree.

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>>Talking about Nort Corea, how do you feel about new missile defence system (paid by your taxes) being so strategically/smartly positioned in Eastern Europe ? How is that of any help now ??
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>Putin & Co. are not afraid of sabre-rattling, either - and Russia is a much more serious threat than NK.
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Disagree. Russia is no threat to anybody.