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Originally Posted by Pfloyd

Well both Horishima and Nagasaki were important military targets, otherwise they couldv'e bombed Tokyo which had a much larger population, but civilians were not the main targets.

As for them being "too strong of a reaction" is up to heated debate. I tend to gravitate towards the group of people who say it was not necessary.

But I have a great American Historian as a teacher, and he also has some genuinely interesting facts pointing otherwise.

Still, what if's do not really help at the moment, it did end the war though. Although the cost was high, for sure.

I agree with you on the Nazi thing, but as soon as they were defeated and had some reflection time, most of the German population realized how ridiculous the views behind Nazi-ism were.

The big difference between WWI and WWII is that Germany was not punished after WWII, like it was in WWI with the treaty of Versailles, which is probably the main reason Hitler got into power in the fist place. Germany was blamed for all of WWI, when in reality the Austrian-Hungary empire was more to blame for that war. This created massive resentment among the German people, and lead to a unique period in world history. A dark one to be sure.

And yes, ETA is a guerilla like organization, very indoctrinated and tough to squeeze out, but if FARC could be stopped so can ETA.

But clearly diplomacy alone is not solving the issue, nor is catching important members of the organization, they keep popping up, we have seen this time and time again.

Time for a new direction, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsi...r_World_War_II

Germany before and after WWII:

Before:



After:



The FARC, sadly, have not been stopped yet. Weakened, like ETA, yes, but not stopped. My point is that if they want to go on, these type of organisations cannot possibly be stopped completely.