Atomic Bomb

I got done reading something just now about the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Japan. I honestly don't understand why people have such a harsh reaction to that event (as well as the dropping of the first bomb). It really makes me wonder if the people pissing about it really checked into what was going on at the time.

If you look at almost any battle America had with Japanese forces, these people would literally continue fighting until they could fight no more. They would not give a position until they absolutely had to. They suffered immense casualties in normal warfare because of this. They fought savagely and brutaly (hence the image of archaic asian people from the 40s and 50s). We dropped the bombs because we knew that if we brought the front line to them, it would cost more lives than dropping the bombs did. Most importantly, it would cost more American lives. The math was done and the bombs were dropped. If there were another choice, it would've been taken.

It's an unfathomable thing in an era where precision air strikes and special forces take care of the dirty work, but at a time when real people had to do real fighting and dying (not to mention the fact that I've heard somewhere that the Japanese government was intending on having civilians fight with whatever they could get their hands on) the only option was to kill enough to people to make them say "hey, this fight isn't worth the cost". Anyone who does enough looking will see that the Japanese were and still are an extremely proud people. Just the same as we would stand in the streets with rocks and defend ourselves if we had to, so would they.

I'm not saying it was the best that could have happened, I'm just saying it was necessary and given the available options and probably outcomes it ended up saving a good amount of lives from being lost over a long period of time.

Now I'm going to go back to watching my anime and enjoying my Sony music system.