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b95000
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Ignoring Japan's atrocities does not help us have this discussion nor understand the times and context they were in when the bombs were dropped. |
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Bruce
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herjihad
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Bismillah, The atrocities were committed by the military. The bombs were "dropped" by our military purposefully to kill millions of civilians. I think instead of dropped, hurled or exploded on, or better yet, unleashed would match the violence of the word atrocities. Who planned the unleashing of this evil nuclear weapon in the cities of Japan? The scientists who created them had a good idea of what the nuclear weapons would do to people, and so did our administration who authorized them. These bombs were a vicious act by a vicious government. Just as 9/11 was a political, vicious attack, so was this. Fortunately the perpetrators of 9/11 didn't have nuclear weaponary available to them, or that explosion would have been much, much worse in human civilian lives. Yes, the sheer volume and size of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's devastation makes a difference in how the world views the devastation of these three cities. And because the administration which unleashed the bombs on Japan in America is gone, we try to place the blame elsewhere, but we Americans are responsible especially people who justify the use of such destructive, evil weapons. We need to return to nuclear disarmament. Many of us learned from the horrible devastation in Japan that nuclear arms have no place in a civilized world. |
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b95000
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Herjihad, Do you understand what Japan had done up through 1945? Does that context not matter, at all? If the bombs saved millions of Japanese and American lives, can you not understand how that would have been a difficult dichotomy to decide on? Further, these were primitive nuclear bombs, though very deadly, not the mutually assured destruction sort of hydrogen bombs that we now struggle with. Would it have been better to go forward and kill MANY MORE JAPANESE with other types of weapons? Would that have somehow been more humane and loving? Please elaborate on what should have been done.. Edited by b95000 |
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Bruce
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Nausheen
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Auzubillahi minash shaitan ir rajeem, Bismillah ir rahman ir rahim, PPl keep wondering and elaborating on what would or would not have been done. What was good and bad. However Japan did not stagnate at that point. There has been a huge change in Japan ever since. The war attrocities that the world had seen from the side of Japan was coming from the tyrant monarchy. A monarchy which was tyrant inside as well as beyond its borders. The country was closed to outside world, entire finances were controled by the monarch, and a lot of energies were concentrated into armies. The masses were so poor at that time, that in most homes there would be nothing to eat except rice and potato (because this was their only produce). The kamikaze pilots the world has known, are known for their distruction where they were sent, but what ppl do not know is why they were there. They were not millitants, or suicide bombers, because they were not coming thru their own will. They used to be recruited on gun points. The planes used to be fueled for just as much that could only reach to the target, but cannot return. The monarchy was murdering Japan's pilots - they were given no choice. The state of mind of those men is not easy to comprehend. Further in the worldwar Japan was fighting the armies, but the bombs killed poor, already oppressed, innocent masses of the country. Japan is not letting their children forget that event. They mark the dates every year. But from there they move on to glory and success. Today Japan is foremost in technology. They have everything that can make life convenient. Their quality of life is something a common man in the west cannot even dream of. Japan does business with the world, and maintains good relations with all. The world in general has a good opinon of them. They are not attacking anyone, and not poking their noses in other's affairs, thinking themselves as godfathers. The mentality of a common Japanese about Pearl Harbor is not the same as that one may find in Americans regarding the millitary activities of America all over the world, from hiroshima, to Vietnam, to Afghanistan, Iraq, and God knows may be Iran. These talk of world peace with military campeings, with guns, bombs and apaches. - but the Japanese do not even manufacture these items. It is not that they cannot, because when they make a simple pen to write, it is the best in the world. Ponder over this! Peace, N. |
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In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. His mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare during World War II. Unfortunately, he was never officially told the war had ended; so for 29 years, Onoda continued to live in the jungle, ready for when his country would again need his services and information. Eating coconuts and bananas and deftly evading searching parties he believed were enemy scouts, Onoda hid in the jungle until he finally emerged from the dark recesses of the island on March 19, 1972. Called to Duty In the Japanese army, Onoda was trained as an officer and was then chosen to be trained at an Imperial Army intelligence school. At this school, Onoda was taught how to gather intelligence and how to conduct guerrilla warfare. In the Philippines You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we'll come back for you. Until then, so long as you have one soldier, you are to continue to lead him. You may have to live on coconuts. If that's the case, live on coconuts! Under no circumstances are you [to] give up your life voluntarily.1Onoda took these words more literally and seriously than the division commander could ever have meant them. On Lubang
They lived very close together, with very limited supplies: the clothes they were wearing, a small amount of rice, and each had a gun with limited ammunition. Rationing the rice was difficult and caused fights, but they supplemented it with coconuts and bananas. Every once in a while, they were able to kill a civilian's cow for food. The cells would save up their energy and use guerrilla tactics to fight in skirmishes. Other cells were captured or were killed while Onoda's continued to fight from the interior. The War is Over...Come Out! Again, the outside world tried to contact the survivors living on the island by dropping leaflets out of a Boeing B-17 near the end of 1945. Printed on these leaflets was the surrender order from General Yamash*ta of the Fourteenth Area Army. Having already hidden on the island for a year and with the only proof of the end of the war being this leaflet, Onoda and the others scrutinized every letter and every word on this piece of paper. One sentence in particular seemed suspicious, it said that those who surrendered would receive "hygienic succor" and be "hauled" to Japan. Again, they believed this must be an Allied hoax. Leaflet after leaflet was dropped. Newspapers were left. Photographs and letters from relatives were dropped. Friends and relatives spoke out over loudspeakers. There was always something suspicious, so they never believed that the war had really ended. Over the Years In 1949, Akatsu wanted to surrender. He didn't tell any of the others; he just walked away. In September 1949 he successfully got away from the others and after six months on his own in the jungle, Akatsu surrendered. To Onoda's cell, this seemed like a security leak and they became even more careful of their position. In June 1953, Shimada was wounded during a skirmish. Though his leg wound slowly got better (without any medicines or bandages), he became gloomy. On May 7, 1954, Shimada was killed in a skirmish on the beach at Gontin. For nearly 20 years after Shimad's death, Kozuka and Onoda continued to live in the jungle together, awaiting the time when they would again be needed by the Japanese army. Per the division commanders instructions, they believed it was their job to remain behind enemy lines, reconnoiter and gather intelligence to be able to train Japanese troops in guerrilla warfare in order to regain the Philippine islands. Surrender Onoda was now on his own. Remembering the division commander's order, he could not kill himself yet he no longer had a single soldier to command. Onoda continued to hide. In 1974, a college dropout named Norio Suzuki decided to travel to the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Nepal, and perhaps a few other countries on his way. He told his friends that he was going to search for Lt. Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman.4 Where so many others had failed, Suzuki succeeded. He found Lt. Onoda and tried to convince him that the war was over. Onoda explained that he would only surrender if his commander ordered him to do so. Suzuki traveled back to Japan and found Onoda's former commander, Major Taniguchi, who had become a bookseller. On March 9, 1974, Suzuki and Taniguchi met Onoda at a preappointed place and Major Taniguchi read the orders that stated all combat activity was to be ceased. Onoda was shocked and, at first, disbelieving. It took some time for the news to sink in.
We really lost the war! How could they have been so sloppy?During the 30 years that Onoda had remain hidden on Lubang island, he and his men had killed at least 30 Filipinos and had wounded approximately 100 others. After formally surrendering to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Marcos pardoned Onoda for his crimes while in hiding. When Onoda reached Japan, he was hailed a hero. Life in Japan was much different than when he had left it in 1944. Onoda bought a ranch and moved to Brazil. In May 1996, he returned to the Philippines to see once again the island on which he had hidden for 30 years. 1. Hiroo Onoda, No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (New
York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1974) 44. Edited by ZamanH |
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kim!
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Amazing story, but sure shows how scarily strong and binding the power of brain washing can be. Truly frightening.
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Community
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"....The proof that they were was that whenever we fired on one of them, a search party arrived shortly afterward."3 It had become a cycle of disbelief. Isolated from the rest of the world, everyone appeared to be the enemy." Sounds like making the wrong conclusions about events, filling in reality according to an unmerciful view. A trait common in...extreemists. Maybe extreemists is not the right word...terrorists....well not only. The world keeps on turning so don't get stuck in an unmerciful view of a moment, fear Him alone and hope for His mercy and move on while wishing for what is better(and that is with Him if you understand) The Merciful. Otherwise you could find yourself hiding in some kind of jungle for 29 year without any true reason and killing inocents thinking they are the enemy. |
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Whisper
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War on Terror/War for Freedom are not motivated by defense of the US Constitution, peoples and nation? Nico, didn't you inform this imposter that the link between terrorism and Eyerak has long been shot down - all across the globe. I wonder when will this news reach the US. |
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