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Re: The Atomic Bomb: A Different Perspective (Score: 1)
by Nagai on Monday, August 08 @ 06:27:36 EDT
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mind you, who's orders was he following? the furhrer's to destroy germany? and did you know germans also had kamikaze type pilots? i don't know what books you've been reading, but i saw plenty of your crakkka history channel programs and read articles that stated nazi-germany was as fanatical as imperial japan.
He was defying the Fuehrer's orders when command was transferred to him. I imagine the Germans had "kamikaze" pilots, but not as an actual component of training doctrine or on anywhere near the scale that Japan was implementing during the war. You do know why Japan fielded kamikaze pilots, right? It wasn't because dying was so glorious - they lost all of their best pilots in the early days of the war and there was no one left to train the new ones. Also, while Japan started the war with technologically advanced fighters, they did not innovate enough as the war went on and were surpassed by the allies. The spiritual BS was only to get useful fools to pilot the planes into enemy ships - similar to how current terrorist organizations get some idiot to blow themselves up in pizza parlours and school busses in Israel.
By the way, I'm not a "krakka" - I'm a Korean-american living in Japan. Save your "jive-talking" for someone who cares "G-dawg."
and japan at the end of the war desperately lacked the resources to fight, that's why one way suicide trips saved them oil and no fighter resistance was encountered by the enola gay bomber that dropped the bomb. there are actual documents showing both hiroshima and nagasaki were intentionally spared while all the other cities have been bombed to rubbles in order for them to be pristine testing sites for the bombs.
Actually, they had plenty of fuel for the planes (alll 12,000+ of them) they had in order to repel the invasion planned - roughly 800 of which were to take out landing ships in suicide attacks using pilots trained only for the specific mission at hand. Nevertheless, as I mentioned before, they had a serious lack of trained, veteran pilots by then so suicide attacks were all they could really rely on to kill the enemy (the "Ohka" suicide rocket being the best example of this). Plenty of other cities were spared bombing campaigns in Japan other than Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while a number of cities and villages were also bombed for the sake of convenience. The main reason for this was the unpredictability of the weather over Japan, which made it difficult to accurately bomb the targets specified in missions. It was more than common for the weather to screw up a mission and force the aircrew to ditch a full payload of bombs before they returned to base - more often than not onto some unsuspecting town or village, rather than into the ocean. Anyway, there is no argument here about the use of the bomb - they were going to use it and they were given the political opportunity to do so by the Japanese high command.
it's no more than a racist act, plain and simple, and to continue to defend it and perpetuate it thru iraq and afghanistan is the same sort of imperialism that imperial japan was guilty of.
I still consider it an act of war, with undertones of nationalism and racism - rather than your infantile black and white view of it being a vast conspiracy of the "crakka" to wipe out and subjugate all the Asians of the earth.
As for American imperialism (which, by the way was one of the excuses Imperial Japan used to create the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere), you'd think if that was the actual objective (creating colonies out of Afganistan and Iraq) that they would go about it in a more pragmatic manner than continuously shooting themselves in the foot by trying to make any kind of consensus with the people that live there. It would have made more sense and cost less American lives to simply send in arial drones to seed the entire country with mines and automated killin
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