Shotsie

What's your point? Initially an embargo was placed on Japan by Western powers. The battle of Midway wasn't until June 1942, six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Of course we had placed a blockade on them by then, we had already been at war with them for six months.


Keep grasping at straws. Your attempt to compare(and justify) the 9/11 attacks-an arguably unprovoked rogue attack on a nation in the name of Islamic jihad-with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just shows that you have no interest in the truth, only in cherry picking and twisting bits of information to support your own biased, anti-American narrative. It's completely obvious. I don't see you bashing the Russians on this board about Putin and the invasion of Chechnya, which is considered by many to be an attack on Islam. I don't hear you complaining about China commiting genocide-by-inundation by moving thousands and thousands of Han Chinese to overcome the dominance of Muslim Uighurs.


The Japanese were given an ultimatum, surrender or face prompt and utter destruction. The ultimatum was broadcast to the Japanese Home Islands on the radio while leaflets describing it were dropped from American bombers. The most I will concede is that the US should have waited to see if the Hiroshima bomb would bring surrender before dropping the second one on Nagasaki. Yet, after two atomic bombings, massive conventional bombings, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, the Japanese government STILL refused to surrender. The only reason they finally did surrender is because the emperor requested it, and he was considered a god to the Japanese people. The real terrorists against the Japanese were the Imperial military and the Japanese government who were more concerned with loss of honor than Japan's destruction. In fact, surrender was so repugnant to the military that most of the military leaders commited seppuku after the surrender document was signed.