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Was the US right to drop the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945?
My opinion- YES.
Discuss:-
My opinion- YES.
Discuss:-
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Rakuga wrote:
> My theory is he's either:
> a) Nowhere near Afganistan
> or b) dead, but has been cremated or something, thus he shall never be
> found...
I think he is dead, those daisy cutters just don't leave anything behind.
And surely if he was alive he would be goading the US, it is clear that he likes the publicity.
> My theory is he's either:
> a) Nowhere near Afganistan
> or b) dead, but has been cremated or something, thus he shall never be
> found...
I think he is dead, those daisy cutters just don't leave anything behind.
And surely if he was alive he would be goading the US, it is clear that he likes the publicity.
Pingouin wrote:
> Well at least it's nice to know Since then the US has not acted in
> such mindless acts of of revenge!
Er I've heard that the US since 1945 have bombed countries at separate occassions something like 60 times.
Off the top of my head, I cannot recall them all, however most recently as we will all remember Afganistan..
Loads of civilians died in that short war, I don't know how many but they did. When you are bombing a country, you can't exactly make bombs hit the right people.
And don't give me that "The Taliban asked for it rubbish." Maybe they did by shielding Osama Bin Laden, but they didn't exactly carry out September 11th. And being the proud nation the US is, it has to bomb someone so it looks strong. The thing about terrorism however is that it doesn't live in a specific country.
I'm not saying September 11th was a good thing, it was an absolutely terrible thing, done by terrible people. And Osama Bin Laden needs to be found and punished. I just don't think bombing Afganistan was the right thing to do.
Maybe it's a good thing now for the people of Afganistan that the Taliban has been overthrown however what some of you might not know is that it was the US put them into power in the first place, because of Anti-Communist attitudes.
I just hate the way everyone sucks up to the USA, and how what the USA thinks is always right. I'd call Afganistan a mindless act of revenge done by a country that doesn't want to look weak... and unsuprisingly to me they still haven't found Osama.
My theory is he's either:
a) Nowhere near Afganistan
or b) dead, but has been cremated or something, thus he shall never be found...
> Well at least it's nice to know Since then the US has not acted in
> such mindless acts of of revenge!
Er I've heard that the US since 1945 have bombed countries at separate occassions something like 60 times.
Off the top of my head, I cannot recall them all, however most recently as we will all remember Afganistan..
Loads of civilians died in that short war, I don't know how many but they did. When you are bombing a country, you can't exactly make bombs hit the right people.
And don't give me that "The Taliban asked for it rubbish." Maybe they did by shielding Osama Bin Laden, but they didn't exactly carry out September 11th. And being the proud nation the US is, it has to bomb someone so it looks strong. The thing about terrorism however is that it doesn't live in a specific country.
I'm not saying September 11th was a good thing, it was an absolutely terrible thing, done by terrible people. And Osama Bin Laden needs to be found and punished. I just don't think bombing Afganistan was the right thing to do.
Maybe it's a good thing now for the people of Afganistan that the Taliban has been overthrown however what some of you might not know is that it was the US put them into power in the first place, because of Anti-Communist attitudes.
I just hate the way everyone sucks up to the USA, and how what the USA thinks is always right. I'd call Afganistan a mindless act of revenge done by a country that doesn't want to look weak... and unsuprisingly to me they still haven't found Osama.
My theory is he's either:
a) Nowhere near Afganistan
or b) dead, but has been cremated or something, thus he shall never be found...
Protoss wrote:
> Pingouin wrote:
> Well at least it's nice to know Since then the US has not acted in
> such mindless acts of of revenge!
>
> And Pearl Harbour wasn't a mindless act of revenge?
> The atomic bomb wasn't just a revenge weapon, it was born out of
> necessity.
And exactly what was Perl Harbour in revenge for?
> Pingouin wrote:
> Well at least it's nice to know Since then the US has not acted in
> such mindless acts of of revenge!
>
> And Pearl Harbour wasn't a mindless act of revenge?
> The atomic bomb wasn't just a revenge weapon, it was born out of
> necessity.
And exactly what was Perl Harbour in revenge for?
Pingouin wrote:
> Well at least it's nice to know Since then the US has not acted in
> such mindless acts of of revenge!
And Pearl Harbour wasn't a mindless act of revenge?
The atomic bomb wasn't just a revenge weapon, it was born out of necessity.
> Well at least it's nice to know Since then the US has not acted in
> such mindless acts of of revenge!
And Pearl Harbour wasn't a mindless act of revenge?
The atomic bomb wasn't just a revenge weapon, it was born out of necessity.
I agree with Cyclone, in that it I don't think it was the right decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, but there wasn't really much else that they could do. They wanted to send a message to Japan, and they did, and it was effective. I think that Nuclear bombs should be disarmed totally, because they are capable of mass destruction, and it only takes one false move to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people. They're not without their uses though, as you can see.
I agree with Cyclone, in that it I don't think it was the right decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, but there wasn't really much else that they could do. They wanted to send a message to Japan, and they did, and it was effective. I think that Nuclear bombs should be disarmed totally, because they are capable of mass destruction, and it only takes one false move to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people. They're not without their uses though, as you can see.
I don't think it was right, but what they could of done otherwise would have been more wrong. An invasion by US and British troops would have cost far far far more than the deaths sustained at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in both military and civilian terms - remember a lot (not all, but a lot) of Japanese people wer very very nationalistic, and fanatical about their emperer. Like the earlier posts, the effects were shown, and the dangers realised. Several members of the nucelar development team killed themselves afterwards.
And on another point, although not condoning the September attacks, has America actually looked at WHY they were attacked - what their foreign poilicy and business is doing to a lot of other countries around the world????
And on another point, although not condoning the September attacks, has America actually looked at WHY they were attacked - what their foreign poilicy and business is doing to a lot of other countries around the world????
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