Pearl Harbor

[Jason76]

The oil was stopped to Japan - but then again, they attacked China. However, though, western powers were always controlling weaker nations - but "two wrongs don't make a right". What's the argument here?

Now, of course, after watching Pearl Harbor I was upset by the moving scene of such a cowardly attack. I mean, it was cowardly regardless of any deep look at history.

 

[MrDawn]

What's the argument here?

I don't think you understand. There's no argument when you have a country that's plotting the mass genocide of another. The Japanese were horrible and brutal back then.

It was about stopping Japan from committing mass genocide. What you're not understanding is that Japan got exactly what it deserved. The Japanese weren't going to stop at Pearl Harbor. They were going to keep on attacking and killing more US soldiers every opportunity they got.

They were planning on carrying out more attacks on the US. One of those attacks was a chemical weapons attack that was in the works by Shiro Ishii. Truman wasn't going to let them commit more atrocities against us. He saved thousands of lives.

I don't think you've heard of Operations Cherry Blossoms at Night. They were planning on killing more Americans. This attack was aimed at innocent people.

Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night (Japanese: 夜櫻作戰, Hepburn: Yozakura Sakusen) was a 1945 plan developed by Shirō Ishii to wage biological warfare upon civilian population centers in Southern California in the United States during the final months of World War II, using pathogens created by members of Ishii's Unit 731.

Operation PX - Wikipedia

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Bombing Japan was a necessary act of deterrence at the time and to force their surrender. Invading Japan with man power would have been very costly and would have costed the US thousands of lives during the war. So the nuke was Truman's only option to a quick victory. We still had the Nazi's to deal with and honestly, the US just didn't have that kind of time.

The advantages of the new weapon made its use an easy and obvious decision for Truman. The bomb might speed the end of the war without an invasion and without taking the risks the other options presented. Truman's guiding motive was to force a surrender at the earliest possible moment to save American lives.
The precise number of lives was not a concern; he wanted to reduce American casualties to zero. The Japanese had given no indication that they were ready to stop fighting, and Truman authorized the bomb because it appeared to offer the most likely way to produce an American victory on American terms with the lowest cost in American lives.
The atomic bomb accomplished Truman's primary objective. The attack on Hiroshima finally convinced Hirohito that the war must end, and his long-delayed conclusion was the decisive step in bringing about a Japanese surrender. Without the atomic bomb, the war would have continued at a cost in American lives that Truman and the public he served would have found unacceptable.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-27/the-atomic-bomb-was-necessary-to-force-a-prompt-japanese-surrender

Here's more on the war crimes they committed during WW2.

Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia

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