On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:29:09 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 9/15/2019 3:00 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:34:44 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>> No need to run away from this discussion. Just think about
>>> what you said.
>>>
>>> Don't ignore reality, dsi1. Japs already took over the other
>>> south pacific islands. Hawaii would have been a big score for
>>> them...the next big step to be in range of mainland USA and they,
>>> in fact, did try to get closer in the Aleutions after they
>>> couldn't conquer Hawaii.
>>>
>>> Don't forget how the Japanese mistreated allied POWs either. They
>>> really were an evil empire back in those days but war does that
>>> to people. It's just worldwide insanity. And most of the people
>>> killed or doing the killing were just normal people that would
>>> prefer to live in peace.
>>
>> They also treated civilians badly, including women and children. Put
>> them in concentration camps, almost starved them to death. Of course
>> throwing an atomic bomb on their cities is also an inconceivable
>> atrocity. The second biggest western atrocity after the Holocaust.
>>
>
>I guess that falls under "seemed like a good idea at the time". It did
>help bring and end to the war and it will be debated forever how many
>lives would have been lost otherwise. We'll never know what
>alternatives may have worked. Or not.

Throwing atomic boms on civilians can never be the solution. It's the
problem.