How can you compare War Crimes committed by the German and Japanese leadership against humanity, with the leadership of America?
German leadership sent 13 to 17 million innocent people to gas chambers who had done nothing wrong to warrant this action. Just because they were Jewish, 5 to 6 million were sent to gas chambers.
The imperialistic government of Japan started the unprovoked war with the United States with a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor that took 2400 U.S. lives. Their reasoning for the attack on Pearl Harbor was to cripple our navy so we would not be able to interfere with their quest to capture oil fields in Indo China while taking over all of the islands is the Pacific. If they had been successful, what do you think their next goal would have been?
In all of the countries they had invaded or taken over, many prisoners had been forced to work in their coal mines and steel mills. Women and young girls by the hundreds of thousands, in all of those countries had been “volunteered” unknowingly to work in “comfort stations” for the pleasure of men in the Japanese military and related government industries.
Was it necessary to use the Atomic Bombs?
It was asserted that shortly before the end of the war US intelligence acquired information to the effect that Japanese scientists had planned to conduct a test of a nuclear weapon on August 12, 1945. If they had gotten the atomic bomb first, how do you think they would have used it?
The Japanese were aware that we had an atomic bomb and they were given an opportunity to surrender but they declined. We also had plans to invade the Japanese mainland. It was estimated that the loss of human life for both sides, would have been staggering, several times more than the loss of lives at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
For the historians who disagreed with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I wonder how they would have viewed a slower, more costly invasion of Japan that would have caused far more damage and a greater loss of life while extending the war for quite some time. The emperor had stated that they would fight to the last person.
Today, if a rogue country were to detonate a nuclear device in this country that would take the lives of many thousands or millions of people, while crippling our communications over vast areas, What do you think our response should be?