Padawanbater2
Well-Known Member
1. Native American genocide
Go.
Go.
FailFree stuff.......
Allowing the op's parents to breed.
Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, firebombing of Tokyo
It was not an atrocity, because of the historical context; Japan had begun a war of aggression, and while bloodied, was far from beaten by mid 1945.
The two bombs- and the bluff of dozens more- brought the Japanese to the battleship Iowa to sign the Articles of Surrender, at the cost of several hundred thousand lives- I'm overestimating to cover those who died an unnatural death due to their effects later, as well.
The only alternative available was a full scale Normandy style invasion of the Japanese homeland, at the very likely cost of millions- MILLIONS- of casualties on both sides.
Truman made the right decision there.
Telling Patton to stop at Berlin and not follow in Napoleon's footsteps to Moscow? Jury's still out on that one!
It was not an atrocity, because of the historical context; Japan had begun a war of aggression, and while bloodied, was far from beaten by mid 1945.
The two bombs- and the bluff of dozens more- brought the Japanese to the battleship Iowa to sign the Articles of Surrender, at the cost of several hundred thousand lives- I'm overestimating to cover those who died an unnatural death due to their effects later, as well.
The only alternative available was a full scale Normandy style invasion of the Japanese homeland, at the very likely cost of millions- MILLIONS- of casualties on both sides.
Truman made the right decision there.
Telling Patton to stop at Berlin and not follow in Napoleon's footsteps to Moscow? Jury's still out on that one!