> Is it just me, or should we be way more horrified by the fact that the US dropped atomic bombs on civilians?
First Japan was allied with nazi Germany. And nazi Germany was putting jews, handicapped people, romanians, gays, etc. into crematoriums, alive. These weren't soldiers either.
Second Japan did the Pearl Harbor attack: up until then the US was still a neutral country in WWII.
There were many ways to not get at war in the US. Those two weren't among them. What was the US supposed to do? Not drop the bomb and let Russia annihilate and conquer Japan?
These two atomic bombs were horrible but during WWII the US pretty much single handedly saved (most of) the world from both nazism and stalinism.
I'm not saying the US have always been acting in good faith lately but during WWII I'm not sure the US can be faulted much.
Put it another way: a world war vs fucking evil incarnate is messy.
First Japan was allied with nazi Germany. And nazi Germany was putting jews, handicapped people, romanians, gays, etc. into crematoriums, alive. These weren't soldiers either.
Second Japan did the Pearl Harbor attack: up until then the US was still a neutral country in WWII.
There were many ways to not get at war in the US. Those two weren't among them. What was the US supposed to do? Not drop the bomb and let Russia annihilate and conquer Japan?
These two atomic bombs were horrible but during WWII the US pretty much single handedly saved (most of) the world from both nazism and stalinism.
I'm not saying the US have always been acting in good faith lately but during WWII I'm not sure the US can be faulted much.
Put it another way: a world war vs fucking evil incarnate is messy.