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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only surprise here is that there has been any acknowledgement of war crimes by the Japanese.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3028694/U-S-POWs-shot-Japan-70-years-ago-dissected-ALIVE-macabre-experiments-controversial-new-exhibition-shows.html

Up to now, the Japanese' only regret about the war seems to be that they lost.

Contrast that with Germany, where war criminals are sought out and put on official trial; there is no attempt to hide from the terrible past (which they teach their kids about as a lesson to never repeat).

[b]We should probably have nuked Tokyo first and executed the emperor as a war criminal.[/b]  Japanese treatment of POWs was attrocious - even worse than the Nazis treatment of allied POWs.  They still mostly deny the Nanking massacre and that they systematicaly gang raped Korean women.[/quote]

OP, dropping bombs in wartime shouldn't be an act of revenge but as a means to end the war.  The emperor surrendered 3 days after Nagasaki.  (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki)[/quote]

- [b]he was forced to surrender TWO WEEKS and three days after Hiroshima.[/b]

And I agree it should not be about revenge.  But it often is.  Dresden was revenge. [/quote]

Yes, the second bomb convinced him.  Dresden and Coventry were both revenge.

OP seems to forget that the US sat back and let Europe waged a war while people were being carted off to concentration camps.  We only got into it after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. [b] If we had intervened earlier it might have gone differently/ended sooner.  No way of knowing. [/b] Unfortunately the decision makers aren't really the ones who pay:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/BattleOfShanghaiBaby.gif

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/17/1a/d3/171ad336d7a07a2193eaca51c53a2f38.jpg

But truly US treatment of prisoners post 9/11 has been shameful.  We know torture doesn't work and breeds contempt and creates more terrorists.[/quote]

Yes, truly no way of knowing. Our Post WWI military was not in good shape and the political winds against intervention were pretty strong.[/quote]

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