“A limited capacity.” Or, they might have decided that if they were going to lose, they would take as many people as they could with them.
Read up on biological warfare Unit 731 and tell me that there was no chance they’d have killed as many people as they could.
The Japanese Empire was killing a lot of civilians. Chinese civilians, Burmese civilians, Vietnamese civilians. Explain to me why their lives shouldn’t be considered important?
Please explain, in detail, why the lives of the Japanese civilians in Hiroshima were more important then the lives of the Korean/Burmese/Chinese people being killed every day?
If they were so willing, why didn’t they just do it?
Like what, exactly?
Remember two things. First were the Asian peoples who were being slaughtered by the Empire. Why should they go on suffering one extra day? The other is that Truman had an obligation to protect American lives; that was his sworn duty. Why should he allow any US service men to die to protect the lives fo Japaense?
You say there were ‘options,’ yet somehow managed to avoid actually naming them.
What would you tell the Koreans/Chinese/Burmese whose families died while the negotiations stretched out?
Reagan tried to kill the Unions. After boasting about being head of Screen Actors Guild.
There’s a difference.
Japan’s Holocaust was as bad as the Nazi’s. They were killing, raping, mutilating, and enslaving millions of Chinese, Burmese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other peoples on a daily basis. Every extra day the Japanese empire was in power was another day of hell for millions of innocent people. Japan’s rulers know the War was lost after Germany fell. They were happy to keep the killing going.
TIL. I always thought that only referred to the ‘Wizard Of Oz.’
You hold your nose and vote for the D.
Then you go out and work for good candidates in the D primaries.
Third party candidates only help the GOP. Anderson in 1980, and Nader in 2000. The GOP was pouring money to the Greens and Libertarians in 2016.
As Governor of New Jersey, Christie single-handedly stopped a much needed tunnel project that New York and New Jersey had been trying to build for decades. The funding was going to come from the TARP funds and Christie didn’t want Obama to have a big project like that on his resume. It wasn’t like the funds didn’t get spent, they just didn’t go to create jobs in Christie’s state.
Since everyone else is talking about Ayn, let me tell you about Dorothy Parker.
You know that movie, “A Star Is Born?” She wrote the original version. She was a famous writer, known for her devastating insults. She was also an early Anti-Fascist and supporter of Martin Luther King, JR.
Totally underappreciated and far more deserving of fame than Ms. Rand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker
The pet store litter box is $30.00 and the plastic is 3mm thick.
Shipping box from Home Depot is $10.00, make of Kevlar, and twice as big.
Fuck that guy. He was down to kill a whole school full of kids to keep his secret, but was happy to make deals with a fat cat. BTW, did you watch the UK or American version?
Think about it. In the 1950’s, a lot of people couldn’t afford a radio. Reading was the only way to entertain yourself at home. There were plenty of dime novels and pulps. Schools might not have had things like microscopes, but even the worst places could buy books the other schools were getting rid of.
Old joke. A Conservative is a Liberal who just got mugged, and a Liberal is a Conservative who just got arrested.
Look for a novel, ‘The Crook Manifesto’ by Colin Whitehead.
A retired Harlem fence has to reach out to his old running buddies to get tickets to a Jackson 5 concert for his daughter. Hijinx ensue…
You used to pay more for things like an automatic transmission in a car, power windows, radio, and air conditioning.
A VCR was an incredible luxury.
At the technology improves, the price of things should go down.
Someone else just told me. I feel like an idiot.
What of the Japanese civilians?
You haven’t given me one word about why their lives were more valuable than the enslaved peoples.