"Was the Doolittle Raid Worth It?" Topic
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Connard Sage | 14 Jan 2012 10:30 a.m. PST |
That would be hard to do short of putting them out there as guinea pigs for the atom bomb tests! Oh dear. Hiroshima? Nagasaki? I have no sympathy BTW for any enemy personnel condemned to death in the post war trials. They backed the wrong side tough. Similarly, the apologists for Dresden can right off. The Germans went for terror bombing of civilians first (Guernica anyone?). Squealing when you get what you started back in spades is rather dumb. The victors get to make the rules, and the Allies were the victors, thank God. Imagine how bloody the reckoning if the Axis had triumphed. |
sharps54 | 14 Jan 2012 10:45 a.m. PST |
I suppose my example of making them guinea pigs for the atom bomb was a poor one. I honestly wasn't trying to be a smarty pants and didn't even think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki when I typed that. That said there is a HUGE difference between dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which I believe was justified, and what I was alluding to, using the "war criminals" as test dummies in the New Mexico desert. Jason Stafford, VA |
Mobius | 14 Jan 2012 2:16 p.m. PST |
Of course it was. From an economic point of view. Think of all the books and documentaries it has generated over the years. That must be worth millions upon millions. Far outshining a better outcome in the Coral Sea battle. |
Klebert L Hall | 15 Jan 2012 8:20 a.m. PST |
I have no sympathy BTW for any enemy personnel condemned to death in the post war trials. They backed the wrong side tough. Similarly, the apologists for Dresden can Bleeped text right off. I agree, and support your position. I just wish we all took the (more accurate) stand you espouse above, instead of the "they were the vilest of the vile, and we were all sweetness and light" BS people are always spouting. -Kle. |
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