Posted on Aug 7, 2015
Should the United States apologize to Japan for dropping the atomic bomb?
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Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the United States using the first atomic bomb dropping it on Japan, many news organizations and individuals recognized this historic event. A post by one of my friends caught my eye “…why Japan had apologized for its wartime atrocities repeatedly, but the people of Japan had never received an apology for the dropping of two atomic bombs.” Should the United States apologize for the use of atomic weapons that ultimately ended World War II?
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Should America apologize for confining Japanese American's during WWII? Should America apologize for killing and confining Native American's? Should America apologize for slavery? There are a lot of things America as a young nation could have and should have done. But the best apology is avoiding doing these wrong things ever again.
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Not sure how many know that the Japanese, as well as the Germans, also had an extensive atomic weapons research program. If it weren't for some miscalculations related to the purification processes, it is quite likely Japan would have had the weapon around the same time.
Given their state in the war at that time, I have little doubt they would have used it on the US.
Given their state in the war at that time, I have little doubt they would have used it on the US.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
The Japanese were closer than we gave them credit for. They would have had a dirty bomb by December and were planning on dropping it on Ulithi Atoll which wouldn't have sank a lot of ships but it would have poisoned them and killed thousands of soldiers, sailors and marines.
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Only after they apologize to China and Korea for raping and killing millions of people.
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No we did what we had to do. The Japanese had many opportunity's to end the war but the emperor and their military leaders refused to, they thought America was weak and they thought wrong. For a good info watch Hiroshima documentary on Netflix. Good thing Obama was not president then or we would all be Japanese!!!
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No, I don't think so. Japan was the enemy in a war they started with us. We need to stop with the apology tour and get on with leading the world as its only super power. As President Obama and others have said: When the world wants help, they don't call China or North Korea or anyone else. They call the USA. If we apologize to Japan for ending WWII in the Pacific with those two bombs, a war they started, what's next? Will we be asked to apologize to ISIS for fighting them and backing those who are fighting them? It sounds crazy now, but I'll bet the very idea of apologizing to Japan would have sounded pretty nuts to my grandfather's generation, and here we are discussing it.
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SGT David Ewers
That's my thought as well, what's to say we stop at Japan, we start down that path we might as well apologize for everything. That's not the country that I grew up in, the country I served. Being former military I was surprised that the conversation even came up but it did. I stated my position and moved on, the people that I was talking too were not listening to reason.
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Interesting article discussing what would have likely happened if the U.S. hadn't used the atomic bomb on Japan ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1946/12/if-the-atomic-bomb-had-not-been-used/376238/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1946/12/if-the-atomic-bomb-had-not-been-used/376238/
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SPC Americo Garcia
No, It was a whole different era for one. If we did then we would be wanting an apology from them for starting it in the first place. The best way to do it is like former President Truman's grandson Clifton Truman Daniel who has gone on diplomatic mission to heal the wounds moving on from those days. To building a respectful and meaningful relationship for the better of mankind. We are human after all. If we did apologize then we would have to apologize to every single battle even if we didn't mean for our bombs to fall on that building or did? More people would end up on the streets protesting to say what about my apology and it may be thousands of years back? How are we the one who did not do anything then want to say sorry. It happened we will not rewrite history to accommodate or hide our actions as they did happen. We learn from them after all. (this is a picture of Truman grandson with me.) Rah!
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