I have to honestly plead ignorance in this thread. I'm not especially politically astute, but I admit that I find elements from both points of view that I agree/disagree with, so I don't think anybody is as crazy as the other side wants to believe. But reading this thread last night did inspire me to further research the atomic bombings just to refresh myself on them and see if I couldn't learn anything new. And, yeah, it was hell, especially the part where I read that some Hiroshima survivors escaped from there only to seek refuge in... you guessed it, Nagasaki. Just didn't have luck on their side, did they? The bottom line is, war is hell, and we can debate until we're blue in the face rather an act of war was necessary, beneficial, or what have you. But there really is no definitive answer. We'll never know what the war and its aftermath would have been like had Japan not bombed Pearl Harbor or if we hadn't dropped the bombs on them a few years later.

And WESHALLPRESERVE, please stop with the personal attacks in your arguments. Not only does it destroy any credibility you try to remind us in every other sentence of what an alleged retarded shitface fucker Obi Jeewhyen may or may not be, it also makes you appear younger than you actually are.