Originally Posted by TripleXPrint

Typical pacifist response. I'd rather have killed 200,000 Japanese by dropping two nukes on their asses than losing 200,000+ American soldiers by trying to invade mainland Japan.

The Allied Forces lost over 100,000 men and women in the Pacific theater, and over 200,000 missing or wounded. That is the damage from OUTSIDE of Japan. Could you imagine if the Allied forces were forced to take the fight to the Japanese? We're talking massive casualties on both sides, upwards and probably over 1 million lives. Both military and civilian. It sounds horrible when you think about how many people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but think for a second how many lives it saved.

On top of that, the U.S. went in and rebuilt Japan from the ground up and now they're an economic and manufacturing world power. The same with Germany. You know, the best thing that could ever happen to a country is to lose a war against the U.S.