Tom R: wrote:
> Oh? They didn't know they were at war with the US?
Are you seriously trying to say that simply being a civilian citizen of a country with
which the U.S. are at war, equals being warned of getting swept off the surface of the
earth by surprise bomb attacks?
(If you do, then your thinking is... well, so unusual, to the point of absurd, that
you can hardly expect to be taken seriously.)
>They weren't major industrial targets?
No. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a deliberate act of pure terror bombing
of civilians, in order to try to force Japan to surrender. The idea was Truman's or of
his staff, or both. Churchill approved of the idea, so did General MacArthur and the
planes were sent off as soon as weather conditions allowed for it.
The explicit purpose was to bomb and kill civilians, and thereby - by this message -
hopefully put an end to the war.
>You sir, are full of shit!
Well, not entirely. However, true or false, I fail to see the relevance of this
argument (if intended as such).
You made a statement. I thought it was a false statement, and told you why. Full of
shit or not, I still think that my statement is accurate.
That's all.
Lasse
> Lasse Karlsson wrote:
> >
> > Tom R., in response to Nenad, wrote:
> > > We may have done many things we can not be proud of, but we have never attacked
>purely cilivian
> > > targets without warning.
> >
> > I guess it's a matter of definition of "warning", but by any reasonable use of the
>language, in the case of the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively, there
>was no warning that would have given the civilians a chance to escape. More than 100
>000 civilians were killed there.
> >
> > >And, you and yours will wish you hadn't either.
> >
> > This is a completely unacceptable statement, no matter the circumstances. There is
>nothing in Nenad's message that justifies your attack on him.
> >
> > Lasse
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