On 12/7/2019 2:53 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 14:15:24 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2019-12-07 1:42 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of Japan, today is Dec. 7th. Tora! Tora! Tora!
>>
>> Yep. It was not just an attack on the US. That was just a side show to
>> their well coordinated invasions across the Pacific. The US had been
>> hassling the Japanese about their aggression on China and Mongolia and
>> tried to force them to stop by means of embargoes on steel and oil.
>> They thought the US lacked the will to actually fight and that they
>> could knock the war spirit out of the Americans by destroying their
>> Pacific fleet. So we can celebrate Tora Tora Tora as the countdown to
>> Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>
> Can you just stick to boring posts and not foray into disgusting ones?
> Those bombs on civilian populations were the 2nd biggest atrocity of
> WW2, after the Holocaust.
>
If that did not happen they estimate that a million lives would have
been lost, mostly Japanese. They were not giving in until every last
person was gone. No matter, you'd not accept anything about it. You
are welcome to second guess decisions make in the 1940s.