Most Americans weren't alive when that happened though. That's like asking people in Germany now how they can live with themselves knowing the Holocaust happened. It had nothing to do with them.
True but you're accepting the premise that ending the war was a bad thing. The Holocaust? Yeah, bad. Slavery? Ok, that might not have been the best idea. Stopping a bloodthirsty, vicious dictator who didn't even care how many of his own people died fighting us? Pretty damn OK in my book.
It was totally ok in fact one of Truman's best decisions
It saved not only millions of allied lives but even more Japanese lives than an allied invasion ALSO
Even if we didn't invade a naval blockade would've starved the Japanese causing more deaths.
This is the same argument as " How can white people be trusted when they enslaved us." Hey, guess what, that ended in the early 1800's. I, nor any of my fellow white people, are over the age of 200 years old.
ehhhhhhhhh racism was still a thing going into the early 1970s
because you know MLK and Rosa Parks and the 16th street baptist church bombing and all that
Unbelievable how so many ignorant boobs can't fathom that 1 nuclear bomb is no different than a shit ton of "regular" ones. People die in war; if not "them", then "us." Since "they" started it I sleep just fine, thanks.
Besides, if we hadn't ended it how much longer would it have dragged on? And how many more on both sides would have died?
The U.S. made extra Purple Hearts (medals given to troops injured in battle) in anticipation of invading Japan.
Obviously, the invasion never happened, but we didn't run out of the extras until a couple years ago.
Because Japan was like that little bitch bully who thought it would be funny to hit a wasp nest with a stick and knock it down (Pearl Harbor), then realized too late that the nest was actually a hive of Africanized bees. Or did everyone conveniently forget they hijacked our shit and bombed us first? Typical.
It saved not only millions of allied lives but even more Japanese lives than an allied invasion ALSO
Even if we didn't invade a naval blockade would've starved the Japanese causing more deaths.
because you know MLK and Rosa Parks and the 16th street baptist church bombing and all that
Besides, if we hadn't ended it how much longer would it have dragged on? And how many more on both sides would have died?
Obviously, the invasion never happened, but we didn't run out of the extras until a couple years ago.
wrong
Tokyo fire-bombing 75,000–200,000 civilian deaths
Bombing of Dresden 22,700–25,000 deaths
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Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II