QuiGon

Can you speak Japanese..? No..? Well, neither can I - thanks to American heroes such as Mr. Tibbets, who flew the Enola Gay.

History revisionists (i.e. the usual "blame America first" crowd) will try and tell you we didn't need to do what we did. But never let it be forgotten that those bombs prevented a Japanese D-Day, and those bombs saved hundreds of thousands of American lives. That's a trade off I will take every day of the week.

"I sleep clearly every night." - the Late Paul Tibbets

PressCoverage

well, i was going to let yet another of this guy's tired threads plummet to the bottom of the list, unreplied.... but i almost feel bad for him...

i'll pose a question, however... rhetorical, because he can't handle me and blocks his ears: but, at what point in history were we in danger of "speaking Japanese?".... oh, that's right... never...

people like him back then, however, whipped up the fear card i'm sure and had the masses believing just that.... oh how history repeats...

Turd Furguson

I think I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so

Fogbuster

I can't speak much Japanese, but my wife can. She was born there, as were her ancestors for about a thousand generations (with maybe a European sailor sprinkled in about 300 or so years ago).

Anyway, she has always held that most Japanese were grateful that the U.S. ended the war so dramatically. She points out that there is at least one statue of MacArthur in Japan, he was so respected for how he handled the situation there after the Japanese surrendered.

My own thinking is that the war could have been concluded without the use of the atomic bomb, which should have been held back and later against the communist Chinese to prevent the communist take-over of half of Korea. The world would be a lot better now if that had happened.

A unified non-communist Korea would be a powerhouse for good in Asia and even the world by now. As it is, South Korea is the number one nation in the world in internet use, number one or two in ship-building, and has had an overall economic development of very impressive proportion. Their attitude is fresh, young, and very robust. Look for great things to come from Korea.



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Real World

So should we take the above to mean you think we did the wrong thing in dropping the bomb, or we did a necessary evil?

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at what point will my question be answered? tell you what... when anyone answers my question, which came first, i'll address your own...

Real World

Sure, what was the question?

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Leo Tolstoy, 1897

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at what point were we in danger of ever "speaking Japanese", as the paranoid, fear-mongoring original poster intimated to us all....?

reflexblue

We were never in any danger of having to learn how to speak Japanese. But that isn't the reason Tibbits flew that mission,but I'm not going to break my ankles jumping into someone elses argument. Let them speak for themselves.

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agreed... it's just cowardly and insulting to present a memorial to a serviceman by first making up a scenario that never existed... a disservice to the man's memory, and rather typical of angry Bunkerites everywhere...

oh yes... the very real danger of japanese invasion and forced culture change!!!! oh the drama!!!