WWII: The Average Intention

    Bombing during WWII was happening after China refused to concede unconditionally. The popular opinion is that the bombing going on like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was good in the long run because it saved more American lives than it took enemy civilians’. False information.

     Harry Truman was not stopping the war with his bombs, but purposefully prolonging it. Truman knew Russia was going to be the next problem, he wanted a reason to display to the Russians the power of the A bomb. Enemy generals kept trying to concede, they only wanted to keep their Emperor, but we Americans kept saying no because this was not unconditional. 

     Harry Truman also wanted to play with his bombs. He prolonged the war to have an excuse to get to drop bombs. However, ultimately, it was power politics that caused the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

     Patriotism is common, even more so nowadays, being patriotic is considered honorable, this may be a good example of less than honorable warfare. That being said, what about the individual? Are all people honorable or devoid of honor when placed in a time of war?

    During WWII, it was most common for Germans and Russians to generally to be less than honorable, pillaging their way through their journey, and taking advantage of civilian women. On the other hand, the American soldiers were most often honorable people. That does not change the fact that America is to blame for a lot of the war. So how did American soldiers end up being the “good ones”?

     The German people were a good people, they were simply captured by a hateful ideology. You would have been no better if born in the same circumstances as the average German civilian. On the whole, they were as good and moral as any average society, just taught to be somewhat hateful or spiteful to those “lesser than”. There is a path to ugliness for regular good people. On the other hand, people manipulated into dying for a “good cause” stayed away from that path, but their manipulators, such as Harry Truman or the Big Three.