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Old 09-01-2008
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Re: The A Bombs Of Japan: necessary ???

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Originally Posted by CYDdharta View Post
Why would an army with a starving population throw food at us?
you were implying that food would give them the ability to fight. i was sarcastically suggesting that it takes much more than food to wage offensive warfare, especially the modern form.
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Apologists would have condemned any action we took; they always seem to have an excuse. Then it probably would have been about the cruelty of starving them before bombing them, or how they would have given up, if only we’d waited another couple weeks, another couple months, another year or two…
nice way to trivialize this debate. if you really thought that, you would not bother to post on this thread.
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The Japanese still had the ability to produce munitions and aircraft and launch ships and subs. Plenty of material for Kamikazes to continue the fight at the expense of more of our countrymen and the Japanese population, so no, I don't see where you're going.
i need verification of this.
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