US bombing of Hiroshima Nagasaki was it a act of terrorism?

So how would you call killing civilians to archive some particular goal?

 

No. We realize it was not the best decision, which is why they weren't used during the Korean War, or Vietnam, or Desert Storm, and not the invasion of Iraw or Afghanistan. Or any other conflict the US has participated.

However, when so many people had already died, and there was no end in sight, it was the only option the leaders of the time saw. Not only that, it assured another thing, the Soviet Union would think twice about attacking us later on.

If you knew anything about the US you would know that we have a healthy sense of self criticism. That is why we have approval ratings, polls, etc.

The question at hand is was it terrorism, not was it morally correct.

 

I'd call it an attempt at world domination:

Pearl Harbor



Blitzkrieg



All done in the name of world domination. The primary target? Civilians.



PEACE:

 

In a way, yes. But in another way - no.

Yes - innocent women and children were killed.

No - there are no innocent people in war. You can not defeat a people that are willing to fight to the death.

Dropping the 2 bombs killed untold hundreds of thousands of people in Japan, but saved untold americans lives. So it was a trade off.

 

It also saved a huge number of Japanese lives.

How many people died in WWII? Sixty million?

How many people died in the nuclear bombing? Less than two hundred thousand?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were important military targets. Japan had built their military bases and military industry near their cities. While at war, we cannot allow their planning decisions to negatively affect our strategies for achieving victory.

There are no innocent people in a country which declares war. We get the government we deserve. The Japanese people, as a whole, declared war on the United States. At that point, they took responsibility for their own lives.

Everything that happened after that was a direct result of Japanese actions on 7 December, 1941.

 

The irony here is that the majority - OVER ONE THIRD were Russian!!! And of their own accord at that.

A little over 200,000 not including people that died years later due to the fallout, but a significantly smaller amount perished than if the war would have gone on. Millions and Millions more on both sides would have died.