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<blockquote data-quote="Route 66" data-source="post: 3262046" data-attributes="member: 40816">The point I’m making though, would it have been okay if those civilians had been killed with conventional bombs instead? I’m just saying this because you mentioned using atomic bombs specifically.I agree with you concerning Vietnam and Iraq. I’m thankful that we no longer wage war the way we used to - where civilians were considered fair game, by all involved parties. The Japanese and Germans were no strangers to inflicting warfare on civilians either, and had they been able to reach our shores you can bet your bottom dollar they’d have been getting ours as well. The Japanese even attached bombs to helium balloons, letting the winds carry them westward on the chance they would detonate over the U.S. One unfortunate family in Oregon I believe it was, fell victim to one of them. There was no discretion. Times were different then than they are now. In fact it’s even a bit ludicrous to say things like “you dropped an atomic bomb”. We didn’t do anything. None of us were alive back then. Just like I can’t go up to a Japanese person today and say “Hey, that was a real <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ty thing you did at Pearl that day”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Route 66, post: 3262046, member: 40816"] The point I’m making though, would it have been okay if those civilians had been killed with conventional bombs instead? I’m just saying this because you mentioned using atomic bombs specifically. I agree with you concerning Vietnam and Iraq. I’m thankful that we no longer wage war the way we used to - where civilians were considered fair game, by all involved parties. The Japanese and Germans were no strangers to inflicting warfare on civilians either, and had they been able to reach our shores you can bet your bottom dollar they’d have been getting ours as well. The Japanese even attached bombs to helium balloons, letting the winds carry them westward on the chance they would detonate over the U.S. One unfortunate family in Oregon I believe it was, fell victim to one of them. There was no discretion. Times were different then than they are now. In fact it’s even a bit ludicrous to say things like “you dropped an atomic bomb”. We didn’t do anything. None of us were alive back then. Just like I can’t go up to a Japanese person today and say “Hey, that was a real :censored:ty thing you did at Pearl that day” [/QUOTE]

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