You know, when you take a moment to step outside of your echo chamber, like I did when I was an anti-war leftist, you will begin to realize everything you thought you knew about the world was wrong. When you're young, you think you know everything about anything that if the world simply worked the way you want it to, all the adults will …
You know, when you take a moment to step outside of your echo chamber, like I did when I was an anti-war leftist, you will begin to realize everything you thought you knew about the world was wrong. When you're young, you think you know everything about anything that if the world simply worked the way you want it to, all the adults will listen. I naively thought that way when I was a know-it-all anti-war teenager twenty years ago. But then, eventually, cold reality splashes your face, ripping you out of Never Neverland, and before you know it, reality sinks in: History can't be rewritten, it just is what it is.
Take the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Have you ever asked anyone who had first hand experience about the situation involving Japan in WWII, like a WWII veteran? (The clock's ticking, by the way, if you want to ask those veterans what it was like.) Yes, Japan is a close ally now, but that doesn't erase the history of their military's war crimes, which included the use of sexual assault, particularly rape, against Chinese women. If the US was so hellbent on commiting genocide against the Japanese, then why didn't they drop the nuclear bombs on densely populated areas like Tokyo or Osaka? Hiroshima and Nagasaki were specifically targeted because they were military targets (meaning they had bases with soldiers and fire power), and the Allied forces knew a prolonged war with Japan would have cost millions of more Japanese lives than what was ultimately done with the dropping of the bombs. (And yes, I've seen Grave Of The Fireflies and Godzilla Minus One, but it still doesn't change my opinion that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a necessary evil to commit for the greater good.)
All I can say is: Thank God social media wasn't around during WWII, otherwise we'd be still be litigating the so-called atrocities committed by the Allied powers right now in German.
Even assuming your assessment of Hiroshima/Nagasaki are correct (which, I think is fair to say, is debatable at a minimum), that doesn't in any way justify nuking Gaza.
You know, when you take a moment to step outside of your echo chamber, like I did when I was an anti-war leftist, you will begin to realize everything you thought you knew about the world was wrong. When you're young, you think you know everything about anything that if the world simply worked the way you want it to, all the adults will listen. I naively thought that way when I was a know-it-all anti-war teenager twenty years ago. But then, eventually, cold reality splashes your face, ripping you out of Never Neverland, and before you know it, reality sinks in: History can't be rewritten, it just is what it is.
Take the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Have you ever asked anyone who had first hand experience about the situation involving Japan in WWII, like a WWII veteran? (The clock's ticking, by the way, if you want to ask those veterans what it was like.) Yes, Japan is a close ally now, but that doesn't erase the history of their military's war crimes, which included the use of sexual assault, particularly rape, against Chinese women. If the US was so hellbent on commiting genocide against the Japanese, then why didn't they drop the nuclear bombs on densely populated areas like Tokyo or Osaka? Hiroshima and Nagasaki were specifically targeted because they were military targets (meaning they had bases with soldiers and fire power), and the Allied forces knew a prolonged war with Japan would have cost millions of more Japanese lives than what was ultimately done with the dropping of the bombs. (And yes, I've seen Grave Of The Fireflies and Godzilla Minus One, but it still doesn't change my opinion that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a necessary evil to commit for the greater good.)
All I can say is: Thank God social media wasn't around during WWII, otherwise we'd be still be litigating the so-called atrocities committed by the Allied powers right now in German.
Even assuming your assessment of Hiroshima/Nagasaki are correct (which, I think is fair to say, is debatable at a minimum), that doesn't in any way justify nuking Gaza.
Which is kinda the whole point here.