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Originally Posted by namvet
a point i was trying to make to you know who. if we stop and pull back now what??? whats next??? shake hands and call the war off???? oh wait. Harry Truman and I are inside the box here. 
the order after 12-7-41 was unconditional surrender. was FDR inside the box???? |
FDR was a scumbag who intentionally provoked the Japanese attack and he sacrificed over 2,400 men at Pearl Harbor for two reasons. One, was to get the American people pissed off enough to make huge sacrifices during the war, (over 10% of the American people served in the war, with over 400,000 losing their lives), two was to make sure that Japan would not suspect that we had broken their codes.
Truman, was basically told that an allied invasion of Japan could result in 1,000,000 allied casualties and this was unacceptable. I agree. Still, was dropping the atom bomb the ONLY SOLUTION?
What if we didn't have the atomic bomb, what would we have done then?
A simple blockade would have slowly ground Japan into submission. Once we took Iwo Jima and could use fighters to destroy Japan's fighters, they had little defenses left.
They were at our mercy and we gave them none.
Some will say they didn't deserve mercy and they have a strong argument, but like I already said, the women and children in Japan were not involved in the many atrocities committed by the JAPANESE MILITARY.