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Originally Posted by oLd-SouL";p="
"America has one of the worst human rights records of an existing nation":
False. Before you post fiction like this, we'd at least like to see a source where you dream up this crap. You might also spend some time in some 3rd world nations where the justice systems are completely corrupt before you spout out again.
"America is the only nation to even drop a bomb, unnecessarily according to Eisenhower." Funny you use Eisenhower here, as he later adamantly defended the right of the U.S. to test and expand its nuclear program, albeit for defensive reasons. And most agree that America would've taken heavy casualties if we had tried to take Japan by land.
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First point: regarding human rights... hm - aren't we forgetting the Indians you wiped out and the blacks you enslaved? No other nation in the world has ever done this on that large a scale.
Second point: blatantly UNTRUE: dropping the atomic bomb was absolutely unnecessary: Japan had offered THREE TIMES to capitulate before the bomb, with only one demand: keep the Emperor. What does America do? They drop the bomb, Japan capitulates and gets to keep the emperor anyway.
The bomb was dropped to test the bomb (and the scare the USSR) and for no other reason.
As for the subject of nuclear profileration - of course the US should try to stop this. But it's already too late - India, Pakistan, N Korea, Israel and possibly S Africa already have the bomb. You can't change the past, or is George W planning to invade all those countries too?