Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
Well, I have come to the conclusion that the atom bombs, no matter what was going on in anyones heads at the times, no matter how many lives they saved by not needing to invade Japan, were terrorist acts. Nothing else. The bombs were dropped on civilian targets in order to get Japan to surrender faster. This is terrorism. Same as firebombing Germany and Japan.

Now, an argument goes, but Germany did the same thing! So what? That is terrorism too! Unless you agree that terrorism can be NECESSARY, you can not condone the atomic bombs.

I am interested in a serious debate.
But really there Klinky, whats the difference between one Atomic bomb and a massive carpet bombing? The same amount of people get killed. Afterall, isn't that the objective of war, to kill people. You should keep in mind that this idea to limit the amount of dead people to only combatants is a NEW idea in war. No such concept was worried about in WWII or WWI. You see back then the idea that one side of an arguement or war could actually be righteous was still prevalent. Not so, now in this age of grey. These days everybody is correct because they "have their own truth". Well that's a load of huey. Hitler and Japan were wrong and that's it.
They lived by the sword (attacked peaceful people), so they died by the sword (we dropped an A bomb and carpet bombed them. End of story.