The most tasteless and insensitive museum exhibit ever.

[Cyclotron]

I'm speechless.

[laurentius]

good

[Cyclotron]

Surely you don't think it's a good idea to destroy history? Most holocaust survivors I have spoken to are glad Auschwitz is still around, so people can visit and understand what happened, that we might not do it again. I really don't think the victims of these thiings would like your suggestion very much.

[Imran Siddiqui]

What do you expect, cyclotron, he's European... they love to cover up history over there .

[Cyclotron]

That's so depressing... that I'm going to bed.

[Jon Miller]

far more jews go to holocaust museums than any other ethnicity

they want it

so do we, the first world, who let it happen

I am sad that those who helped accomplish it are not similiarly interested

Jon Miller

[aaglo]

This exhibition shows the lack of judgement and taste of the presenters...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
What do you expect, cyclotron, he's European... they love to cover up history over there .

Yeah, as opposed to Americans who never learn history (Europe? Where is that?), forget it (how many times did we subvert Central American countries? Who cares, C.S.I. is on dude!), reinvent it (U 571, The Patriot, yada, yada, yada) or Disneyfy it (come and see ye olde worlde picturesque pilgrims, Indian massacres omitted).

Or ignore it.

Auschwitz is a world heritage site, so won't nobody be doing to much to it any time soon.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Dissident
If we start erasing our history, we will begin to repeat it.

And then the Germans will be singing, "Uber-dubbing over Alles" as they re-record it.

[Q Classic]

Nothing the Japanese did during the war, not even Pearl Harbor, justified those actions. Nothing.

so nothing "justifies" those explosions? not even the systematic destruction of the korean culture. or the theft and rape of thousands of korean women to be used as "comfort women" for the troops. or the theft and destruction of innumerable historical treasures in korea. or the slave labor factories populated with koreans. or the women gang raped to death in nanjing. or the use of poison gas and bacteria in manchuria. or the use of young korean and chinese males as cannon fodder against the allies. or the near-starvation conditions koreans and chinese were put in after being forced to send every single bit of produce to japan.

and somehow, compared to all that... you want me to act as if those who died in the atomic blast are somehow more worthy of pity than those the japanese murdered?

no, two wrongs don't make a right. but remembering and greiving over one wrong while trying to ignore every last trace of the other is a third wrong. and unlike lefts, those don't make a right either.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

Nothing the Japanese did during the war, not even Pearl Harbor, justified those actions. Nothing.

so nothing "justifies" those explosions? not even the systematic destruction of the korean culture. or the theft and rape of thousands of korean women to be used as "comfort women" for the troops. or the theft and destruction of innumerable historical treasures in korea. or the slave labor factories populated with koreans. or the women gang raped to death in nanjing. or the use of poison gas and bacteria in manchuria. or the use of young korean and chinese males as cannon fodder against the allies. or the near-starvation conditions koreans and chinese were put in after being forced to send every single bit of produce to japan.

and somehow, compared to all that... you want me to act as if those who died in the atomic blast are somehow more worthy of pity than those the japanese murdered?

no, two wrongs don't make a right. but remembering and greiving over one wrong while trying to ignore every last trace of the other is a third wrong. and unlike lefts, those don't make a right either.

Actually, I think there should be more focus on the atomic bombs from the west, because we where responsible for that atrocity. Would you rather we focus on atrocities done by other cultures over the ones we do ourselves?

[Q Classic]

that's not what i'm saying

what i'm saying is that the japanese like pretending that they were the only victims, which is bull****.

[Dinner]

I'd say that the bombs are both justified based upon a pure analysis of the numbers. If the allies invaded they expected 1 million allied casualties and something like 10 million Japanese casualties. To compare even if you include people who died years later then less then 500,000 people died as a result of both explosions.

Which is worse 11 million deaths or 500,000 deaths?

[aaglo]

Everybody was a victim in WW2.

I don't want to talk about wheter the use of A-bomb was justified or not - it's pointless. It was used and that it.

[Boris Godunov]

Ned, from your own article:

Originally posted by Ned
Truman opted for a response asserting that the Japanese message met American terms with the understanding that the emperor would be subject to the Allied supreme commander.

Presiding over a final meeting of his War Council, Hirohito demanded acceptance of the United States offer.

On August 14th, late in the afternoon, the United States received Japanese acceptance of American surrender terms

You'll note the American offer was unconditional surrender. Case rested.