Why are the 9/11 attacks deemed so horrible, inhumane and full of terrorism compared to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings made necessary?

Apples and oranges.

1. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of war, against a country that had declared war against the US. 9/11 was not an act of war because Al Qaeda is not a nation.

2. The purpose of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were to get the government of Japan to agree to an unconditional surrender. The purpose of 9/11 was to cause chaos and terror among the civilian population.

3. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were major manufacturing centers for Japan's war effort (making planes and ammo) as such both were legitimate military targets. The twin towers were not military or government targets.

4. A D-Day style invasion of Japan had projected casualties of over 100,000 Americans, and over a million Japanese civilians. The nuclear bombs - although horrific in their own right - actually _saved lives._

9/11 was a political statement made by a small group of extremists. They too had a choice in how to proceed and there were many other choices available to them that wouldn't have resorted to violence. Yet they still chose the most violent path.

I'm sick and tired of wannabe armchair generals who don't even have a full understanding of the situations back then, trying to pass judgment based on 70+ years of information and technology that no one could have possibly known back then.

For instance, one major piece of information these folks seem to have overlooked, or simply ignored, is the fact that Russia, now the newly renamed USSR, was also heading towards Japan, in the hopes of enacting some revenge, and possibly, annexing part of the country as they'd done in Germany. This was another reason why the US did not want to go through with a conventional invasion. It would have certainly given the USSR a chance to make landfall in Japan, and possibly allowed them beat the US to Tokyo.

The Cold War in Asia would have played out a lot differently had Japan surrendered to the USSR and not the US.

Virtually everyone I know considers the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks inhumane. Where did you get the idea that no one did?

The argument that the Japanese would not have surrendered if a mere demonstration bomb had been exploded is, unfortunately, probably a good one. It is quite likely that the bombings DID save more lives than were lost.

I suggest that you read John Hersey's "Hiroshima," which was published in 1946. It will disabuse you of your bizarre and historically-uninformed notion that no one thinks or ever thought that the bombings in Japan were a terrible thing.

And where did you also get the strange notion that 9/11 is considered the "most violent, terrorizing event ever"?

There are several pieces that you are missing. The decision to drop the bomb was made after two battles. In February 1945 the U.S. took Iwo Jima, in April 1945, Okinawa in both those battles the American casualties were in the thousands. On Okinawa alone there were over 50,000 American casualties, over 12,000 servicemen lost their lives. 4 U.S. Divisions were decimated. More importantly of the116,000 Japanese Military personel on the Island only 6700 shell shocked souls chose surrender. The remaining 110,000 were either killed or chose suicide. Also at this time the 20th Airforce B29's were firebombing Japanese cities, in one night over 80,000 Japanese were killed in the flames when the bombers incinerated Tokyo. The American were planning to begin the invasion of the Home Islands in November and the projected casualties on both sides was astronomical. The Japanese dead were expected to be in the millions with over 200,000 American casualties and over 50,000 dead. This was what was before Truman when he made the decision to drop the bomb

With Al-Qaida a small group of radicals sought to kill as many Americans in the most visible statements possible simply because they didn't like American policy towards Israel or Saudi Arabia. There was no declaration of war, they just did it. Like the rest of their people they never seek to come up with a peaceful answer, or one that actually helps people, it's always kill the infidel, because they have been told since they were children that the infidel is the one causing the problems.

In case you failed to notice, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A Bombings occurred DURING A WAR. Moreover, a war that Japan started, and had irretrievably lost by the summer of 1945.

They were given a chance to surrender in July of 1945, when the Potsdam Proclamation was presented to them, but they specifically ignored it. Notice further that even AFTER two of their cities were nuked AND the USSR declared war on Japan, and invaded Japanese held Manchuria, their leadership STILL didn't want to surrender, and that there was an attempted coup to prevent the announcement of the surrender by the Emperor, once he had made the decision to finally end the war.

No, while the Atomic Bombings were horrible, they were also made necessary by the Japanese leadership of the time. On them falls the sole responsibility for those actions, which they could have very easily prevented by not being stubborn and grossly irresponsible morons.

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki raids SAVED somewhere between 1 million and 5 million lives.

The Empire of Japan was totally responsible for the Pacific war and all of the atrocities committed in its name.

Invading a fanatical Japan would have cost up to a half million allied lives, so the trade off was just.

Americans get hysterical over anything that happens to them, but do not mind doing it to foreigners. Ten years before 9/11 (which was indeed a tragic event), the US conducted a military operation in the middle of a city in Nicaragua which killed about 5,000 people and left 20,000 homeless. Most americans never heard about it because american media do not say much about these things.

Well first of all the feeling about the atomic weapon attacks is far more mixed than you credit. But the shock value of 9/11 lies largely in it occurring in peace time.

from an American perspective, events like Pearl Harbor and Sept 11 hold a special place

from the rest of the worlds perspective including Europe and Asia who have seen much greater tragedies, they rank insignificantly

American love claiming their butthurt trumps anybody else's.

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