"When we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor...we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons."
Were we, Lindsey? Japan wasn't trying to eliminate us, just cripple our military capability so they could seize oil production to continue their war effort after we cut them off. Germany …
"When we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor...we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons."
Were we, Lindsey? Japan wasn't trying to eliminate us, just cripple our military capability so they could seize oil production to continue their war effort after we cut them off. Germany you could maybe make a case that we were next on their list after conquering Europe (assuming they could), but crossing an entire ocean with an invasion force to existentially threaten the United States would've been a tall order for either nation, even at the height of their powers. Our allies certainly faced destruction, but we were fairly insulated.
To then take that faulty premise and draw a direct line to dropping the bombs is even more absurd- by the time we reached that point, Germany was defeated and Japan effectively was, it was just a matter of how it would end: they were effectively confined to their islands and posed no realistic threat to our nation. Surely not what he intended, but that does contain some parallels to the current situation- regardless of Hamas's rhetoric, they lack the capability to end Israel's existence.
Dropping the bomb was ostensibly about "ending the war", which Israel seems uninterested in, and in a fashion that theoretically could save more lives than it took (we already killed many civilians through firebombing campaigns and those would've continued, a ground invasion would've resulted in many dead, and even the most "humane" option, a blockade, would've resulted in death by starvation of who knows how many civilians before the government capitulated), which again, Israel seems uninterested in.
The only part of nuking Gaza that would be in keeping with our use of atomic weapons would be the secondary factor: sending a message. We wanted the world to know that we could do it and we would do it. That would be a more intellectually honest tack for him to take: he wants Israel to do it to show all the other nations in the Middle East that either Israel gets what it wants or they will deploy the most devastating weapon created by humankind, not out of any "need", but because they can and they will.
"When we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor...we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons."
Were we, Lindsey? Japan wasn't trying to eliminate us, just cripple our military capability so they could seize oil production to continue their war effort after we cut them off. Germany you could maybe make a case that we were next on their list after conquering Europe (assuming they could), but crossing an entire ocean with an invasion force to existentially threaten the United States would've been a tall order for either nation, even at the height of their powers. Our allies certainly faced destruction, but we were fairly insulated.
To then take that faulty premise and draw a direct line to dropping the bombs is even more absurd- by the time we reached that point, Germany was defeated and Japan effectively was, it was just a matter of how it would end: they were effectively confined to their islands and posed no realistic threat to our nation. Surely not what he intended, but that does contain some parallels to the current situation- regardless of Hamas's rhetoric, they lack the capability to end Israel's existence.
Dropping the bomb was ostensibly about "ending the war", which Israel seems uninterested in, and in a fashion that theoretically could save more lives than it took (we already killed many civilians through firebombing campaigns and those would've continued, a ground invasion would've resulted in many dead, and even the most "humane" option, a blockade, would've resulted in death by starvation of who knows how many civilians before the government capitulated), which again, Israel seems uninterested in.
The only part of nuking Gaza that would be in keeping with our use of atomic weapons would be the secondary factor: sending a message. We wanted the world to know that we could do it and we would do it. That would be a more intellectually honest tack for him to take: he wants Israel to do it to show all the other nations in the Middle East that either Israel gets what it wants or they will deploy the most devastating weapon created by humankind, not out of any "need", but because they can and they will.