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Originally posted by jhuerbin88
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What do you think American families, who lost loved ones in an invasion that could have been avoided with a simple push of the button, would say? They would have been outraged that the president (Truman) wouldn't end it and chose to sacrafice American lives for something that could have been done so easily?
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Agreed, but on the same token, what do you think Japanese families felt like who lost family members in the one of most violent military attacks ever?
I do think that it was Necessary, but did we have to be so deceptive about it? Couldn’t we have done a better job warning them of this or demonstrated the power of the bomb before we dropped it?
I love studying war strategy and I read about many books about it, and Sun Tzu clearly stated not to attack fortified cities. We probably would have lost a lot of Americans trying to attack them on their own turf.
I am coming around to the fact that we needed to do it, but was it the right thing to do and could we have warned them about?