Originally
posted by
NOW3P:
Because anyone who doesn't think 9/11 was the most important thing to happen EVER is un-American!!! BURN THE TRAITORS!
That one had me laughing, I agree. Try a book called "Political Ponerology".
Originally
posted by
iNouda:
I find it amazing how you people could think the intentional massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians was justified just to "finish off" a nearly finished army. Could the Japanese have carried the effort after their land army, airforce and naval forces were severely decimated by their continuous losses? Probably not. Japan was already in peace talks with Soviets. Given time they would have eventually extended the same offer to the US.
Mainland Japan was very well defended. Religiously, every member of Japanese society was responsible to die for the emperor. With the Russian peace talks, the United States would have been left alone to invade mainland Japan alone. Projection on total American losses ranged from 1 to 2 million people. It would have cost the United States more lives that the rest of WWII.
You seem to think that Japan would have began peace talks with the United States but the demands from Russia were much different than those of the United States. The U.S. was an ally of then dictatorial China and wanted Japan to disarm, a clear divergence of the Russians who wanted peace with Japan so they could extend their control over Eastern Europe.
The nuclear bombs dropped on Japan killed approximately 300,000 people, far less than the population losses would have been given an invasion (for both Japan and the United States). You should try reading up on this topic before you comment. Otherwise you are only pushing an agenda of proliferating propaganda.