Palestine - Japan, a comparison

2,403 Americans and others at Pearl Harbor were killed when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The US responded with a declaration of war and by the end of the war 2,800,000 Japanese were killed.

I'm trying to imagine radicalized college students in the 1940s taking over college campuses and yelling and screaming about US murdering innocent Japanese. Demanding that colleges and universities cease any investments in US companies that produced war materials.

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Bumbles · 51-55, M

@trollslayer Could be. It was late in the war. The Japanese were beat bad, but refused to surrender. Japanese atrocities to American GIs were well known. The war was about to change as the US was about to invade Okinawa. It seemed an invasion of mainland Japan would be necessary, and the Japanese were known to fight to the last man, and commit suicidal charges doomed to fail. Casualties were expected in the hundreds of thousands.

Would the US public even condone such a thing? The B-29s were now in range and the US had total air supremacy. Like an arrow pulled back at maximum tension.
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I’m not condoning the bombing but there is some context that makes the question more complex. The war had to end, and it still wouldn’t for another 5 months.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Bumbles we will never really know. But one trip to Hiroshima to see the ruins and the memorials, seeing how the city was chosen for its maximum loss of life, one has to be humble when we condemn another country for doing anything similar.