From: "Keith Willshaw"

"B2431" wrote in message
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From: (B2431)


From: "old hoodoo"


JMO:

The only issue about the Nagasaki and Hiroshima is if it is justifiable
in
war to one child in the hopes that more children will be saved overall
and/or if a single soldier is more valuable than a single child. A
basic
morality question.

snip more of the same.

Let's look at the options: blockade, atomic bombing, invasion and
conventional bombing.


I omitted one: the Allies could simply have taken all their toys and gone
home.
This would have reduced the number of child deaths in Japan to near zero.


And allowed this of Chinese civilians to continue dying as the Japanese
bio-weapons program swung into top gear, not to mention the plight of the
populations of Malaya and Singapore who were starving.

Nice plan.

Keith

I offered that option to an individual who was only concerned with child
casualties.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired