From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 09:00:36 MST
Dwayne <dwayne@pobox.com> Wrote:
> Not being a lawyer, shouldn't the US have acted according to what it
> felt was right?
Yes, but you only need lawyers to argue if bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki
conformed with the Geneva Conventions or not, that has nothing to with morality.
>Your argument above makes sense, but I was told about two wrongs not
>making a right a long time ago.
I suppose a million American casualties in a invasion of Japan would be viewed as a
wrong too by Americans, a wrong they wanted to avoid. We'll never know if the numbers
really would have been that high but it's not unreasonable for the leaders of that time to
think they would be, certainly many thousands of soldiers thought the nuclear bomb had
saved their life.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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