Should the nuclear bombing of japan in WW2 be considered a war crime?

@AngelofFail
Do tell us how you would have defeated "evil"?

@beckyromero thats what military is for... basically you kill enemy civilians to safe your own manpower.

how very honorable

@AngelofFail
"Do tell us how you would have defeated 'evil'" was the question.

Guess you're taking a pass on actually even attempting to answer that.

@beckyromero sigh... ok since you need everything explained in detail i shall talk to you like a 5year old...

military man invade islands... booom boom... many military man die... take long time... dropping bombs on enemy families easier then having own military men die...

@AgapeLove
She's the one who panned the use of the a-bomb.

I merely asked then what would have been her alternative strategy.

(As if the Japanese really fought solider to soldier.)

@AngelofFail
And you think no Japanese civilians would have died during a full-scale invasion of the Japanese homeland?

You think the Japanese would have met us on some deserted battlefield away from their naval bases (which are in those things called cities) and away from their air bases (which are in or near those things called cities) and away from their military production factories (which are also in those things called, you know, cities)?

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@beckyromero which brings us back to the original question... was this a warcrime ? yes it was... you cant use utilitarism to justify a crime. what if the manhattan project never happend.. you think we still would be fighting ? you dont know what otherwise would have happend or if it would be better or worse.

what happen happend and people involved should bow their heads in shame for it was crime like many other in wars

There's a vid clip, wish I could find it, from The West Wing.

Where an Air Force general points out, "All war's a 'crime.'"

You apparently prefer to turn the other cheek. You are not alone in that thinking.

In a war, nations that do that tend to end up being wiped off the map.

We didn't start WWII. Japan did (in China), Germany and Italy (in Europe and Africa).

Japan doesn't get much attention for ITS war crimes.

Raping adult women and little girls and then shoving sticks up their vaginas until their victims bled to death.

Bayonetting patients, nurses and doctors in hospitals.

Medical experimentations on live persons.

Cutting off the penises of European males in Southeast Asia and sewing them to their victims' lips before hanging their naked bodies along roads to 'intimidate' others.

Torpedoing merchant ships, even before a formal declaration of war (SS Cynthia Olson).

Forcing nurses to walk into the surf along beaches before machine-gunning them down.

Massacring whole villages, such as the 1500 men, women and children of Los Baños in the Philippines.

How come no one on SW poses THOSE questions?

Too many people have become apologists for Japan, portraying them as the victim far too long without acknowledging Japan's crimes against humanity.

Be careful. A luck of these people get mad when facts differ from their narratives. @beckyromero