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Stony · 01-29-2002, 11:58 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Vermilion Leader:
The Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima with nuclear weapons was justified and right. Japan had to be broken, not just defeated. Else they would have tried their expansionistic, empire building crap again by this point.

They had to be taught a lesson for Pearl Harbor. The message was clear; "you pull a sneak attack on us and we will vaporise a couple hundred thousand of you. Don't fuck with us EVER again!". Consequently they have stayed in their place ever since.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It was Roosevelt who cut off Japan's access to oil and the natural resources in the Phillipines that provoked the Japanese into attacking the US. Whether or not this was a punishment for Japan's invasion of China I don't know, but sometimes it does pay to research the WHOLE situation, namely the events that preceded the events. What I DO know is that the US had economic interests in China at the time Japan invaded it.

Japan didn't just sink the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor out of spite. They had their reasons, as did the US for nuking them.

[This message has been edited by Stony (edited January 30, 2002).]

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Stony is Offline Senior Member Posts: 151 Join Date: Jan 2002	01-29-2002, 11:58 PM <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Vermilion Leader: The Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima with nuclear weapons was justified and right. Japan had to be broken, not just defeated. Else they would have tried their expansionistic, empire building crap again by this point. They had to be taught a lesson for Pearl Harbor. The message was clear; "you pull a sneak attack on us and we will vaporise a couple hundred thousand of you. Don't fuck with us EVER again!". Consequently they have stayed in their place ever since.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> It was Roosevelt who cut off Japan's access to oil and the natural resources in the Phillipines that provoked the Japanese into attacking the US. Whether or not this was a punishment for Japan's invasion of China I don't know, but sometimes it does pay to research the WHOLE situation, namely the events that preceded the events. What I DO know is that the US had economic interests in China at the time Japan invaded it. Japan didn't just sink the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor out of spite. They had their reasons, as did the US for nuking them. [This message has been edited by Stony (edited January 30, 2002).]