On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 17:38:46 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>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.

You're trying to justify the atrocity because your country committed
it. You haven't learnt a thing from it.