How so? Iran is the one instigating these affairs by increasing their nuclear capability and threatening others.
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Do you know probability?
50% chance
60% chance
which is higher?
which is more likely to happen?
if event 'X' is bad, ...... you fill it in.....please.
How did this thread become about the morality of dropping the A-Bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? I went to the bathroom and came back, and good god...
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Israel scares me way more than Iran does.
That excuse is old , everyone knows that Japan was already on the verge of surrender, invading Japan would not have been needed and all the people in power were damn well aware of that.
"It always appeared to us that, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." - General Henry H. Arnold
"Japan was at the moment seeking some way to surrender with minimum loss of 'face'. It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"P.M. [Churchill} & I ate alone. Discussed Manhattan (it is a success). Decided to tell Stalin about it. Stalin had told P.M. of telegram from Jap Emperor asking for peace." - President Harry S. Truman
The US wanted to use that bomb in the field , show their new toy off to the soviets and so they used it.
This thread is a perfect example of what the left (in the states) do about every issue they can't defend. They change the focus on the conversation and try to put you on the defensive. The past is the past. This is a discussion about the present and the possible future outcome of an Iran with nuclear weapons. Derailing the entire thread so you can avoid the topic is asinine.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!