Originally Posted by
Mikeandvan
! What threat did Japan pose to America? The country was on its knees after the U.S. bombing of Tokyo in march 1945 which was even more deadly than Hiroshima or Nagasaki in terms of immediate casualties! I wonder how many U.S. civilians were killed during WW2?
Pretty much all the 400,000 US servicemen who were killed had been civilians prior to Pearl Harbour. They were then drafted to fight the Germans and Japanese with no choice in the matter.
The thinking in the U.S at the time was that if the entire nation of Japan was sunk into the sea with 100% casualties no-one would have cared.
Part of the problem is that 80 years of peace has made us soft and we now judge the actions of our predecessors not only with the comfort of hindsight but with a badly mistaken sense of superior morality.
No-one is saying these are good things to have happened. But I would suggest that they were, in the context of the time, justifiable.
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