Originally Posted by Garth

In Pearl Harbor, 57 civilians were killed and 2,345 military. The attacked was aimed at the military installations on the island, namely the docked ships and the airbase.

In Hiroshima, 200,000 civilians were killed by carpet bombings before the atomic bomb was dropped. And there were 140,000 as a direct result of the atomic bomb - again, mostly civilian.

In Nagasaki, the bomb left 73,884 dead and 74,909 injured.

If one would contest that they are equivalent in ferocity, then you are implying that an American life is roughly equal to 89 Japanese lives.

The point isn't that America is "The Great Satan" (which some people think), but we shouldn't act like we are the moral authority in the world. We need to realize that we are not perfect and then we can better understand our enemies.