Hiroshima mon amour.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I must tell that I do not regret people of Japan. Japanese war crimes were one of the most terribly during war. People of Japan simply got what they deserved.

People who take this attitude towards anyone scare me. Every side committed war crimes, so should every side have a city or two bombed flat and the population drastically reduced or destroyed?

Anyways, a more interesting question is was Hiroshima a war crime or not? This question is something completely different as to whether it was justified given the information at the time.

[seireikhaan]

People who take this attitude towards anyone scare me. Every side committed war crimes, so should every side have a city or two bombed flat and the population drastically reduced or destroyed?

Anyways, a more interesting question is was Hiroshima a war crime or not? This question is something completely different as to whether it was justified given the information at the time.

Was it a war crime? Well, I think by definition, it most certainly was. Of course, it can be argued that if you're really going to truly beat someone into submission, one must take drastic and shocking measures.

I personally would have much rather preferred we put a smackdown on a military installation instead of masses of civilians. My belief is that we could have attained the same results without having to commit mass murder of innocents. Lets not forget that one of the main reasons we didn't nuke Tokyo was because we'd already flattened it with firebombs, its not as though Japan had much for chips left on the table by this point.