[ronald_reagan]

The bombing of Japan was a necessary evil. Does it ever occur to you that historians from other lands do not judge thusly? Or, is your view so strictly nationalistic that it cannot and does not allow for a more 360' view of the isssue?

Its a personal judgement. And a very educated guess on the subject.

And yes, it does occur to me that others disagree. I just choose not to stick my thumb into the wind to say which way its blowing whenever I speak my mind. I have close friends who think we shouldn't have. But in the long run, it surely saved more lives than it took.

The death toll was 220,000 between the two bombs dropped. Up til then, and Japan was going STRONG.... The death toll for the entire war, was close to 70,000,000 and rising rapidly at that point. How many deaths occurred after that? Very very little. So was it a bad thing? sure. But in my judgement, it saved many millions of lives... and possibly my own grandfathers (plural) who both were fighting in the region.

The japanese had killed nearly 20,000,000 chinese civilians and militia members up this point....

There's always going to be two sides to the story, but no one, and I mean NO ONE can tell me that however evil it may have been.. didn't save MANY more lives than it took. "All in all, not bad.. not bad at all"