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Is USA the most hypocritical nation on Earth?
Up until this day, the USA justifies the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima as a necessary evil.
Meanwhile, when a Palestinian freedom fighter accidentally kills an Israeli citizen he gets labeled as a terrorist.
16 Answers
- Anonymous8 years ago
It doesn't make sense to call an entire country a hypocrite. It's made up of a number of different people with differing ideas. Also, the people who dropped the bomb on Japan aren't the same ones who are going after terrorists today.
War in and of itself is hypocritical, really. Someone attacks you, what do you do? Attack them back. It's hypocritical by nature.
- Anonymous8 years ago
I think this happens basically everywhere.
I mean, yeah, Japan doesn't see the bombing of Hiroshima as a necessary evil. Now, their thoughts on the Rape of Nanking, on the other hand... well, that was different. Somehow.
- Frank McgovernLv 48 years ago
Because in doing so the USA was able to cancel its plans to conduct a land invasion of Japan, that would have resulted in millions of deaths, a ruined country and another split nation (like Korea) if Russia had helped invade. Whats better thousands dead, or millions?
- Donna KLv 48 years ago
Frank McGovern is correct on this regarding
Japan, America, WWII and the A Bomb.
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- Par 4Lv 78 years ago
I agree with what you said except the atomic bomb.
It's war. Get over it. If we didn't drop those bombs, would you be sitting here typing this up? How do you know your grandpa wouldn't have died on the shores of Japan?
- ?Lv 48 years ago
People from other countries think child prostitution is ok and thinks the USA doesn't raise their kids right. Every nation has some level of being hypocritical.
- Anonymous8 years ago
lol..
first .. apples and oranges. The harsh truth is millions of lives were saved by dropping the bomb. They knew we had it, and yet chose to fight on despite being officially warned it would be used.
Second. since when do Palestinian suicide bombers "accidentally" kill Israeli citizens?
- Anonymous8 years ago
"USA justifies the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima as a necessary evil."
No, we do not.
- GregLv 78 years ago
No.
Not even the biggest of idiotic morons..... calls dropping a bomb during a war with a nation that attacked in an unprovoked manner..... a "terrorist attack."