Comments on: The Damn Interesting Book http://www.damninteresting.com A collection of Damn Interesting things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: beartiger http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-26543 beartiger Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:24:40 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-26543 @vman1967, the fact is that there are people, beginning with Paul Nitze, in his contribution to the Strategic Bombing Survey, who have forgotten more about the history of WWII than you will ever know that disagree with your "inevitability argument". Do you know what dying of radiation poising is like, vman? It's protracted, hellish torture. We bombed civilians, rained lethal doses of radiation down on their heads, men, women, children, old men. Particularly the children had nothing to do with Japan's political actions. If Japan had infected us with a virus, would we have experimented on their children because they "brought that upon themselves"? Your justification is ethically incoherent at best, cowardly at worst, and though you seem to think your historical posturings are impressive, they're shallow. @vman1967, the fact is that there are people, beginning with Paul Nitze, in his contribution to the Strategic Bombing Survey, who have forgotten more about the history of WWII than you will ever know that disagree with your “inevitability argument”. Do you know what dying of radiation poising is like, vman? It’s protracted, hellish torture. We bombed civilians, rained lethal doses of radiation down on their heads, men, women, children, old men. Particularly the children had nothing to do with Japan’s political actions. If Japan had infected us with a virus, would we have experimented on their children because they “brought that upon themselves”? Your justification is ethically incoherent at best, cowardly at worst, and though you seem to think your historical posturings are impressive, they’re shallow.

]]> By: fgordon http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-26471 fgordon Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:11:33 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-26471 Please release this in Kindle format too. Thanks Please release this in Kindle format too.

Thanks

]]> By: vman1967 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-26457 vman1967 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:33:08 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-26457 You people who are claiming this is an atrocity by the US government know nothing about the circumstances of WWII. If you want to talk about atrocities talk about what the Japanese did in Manchuria to the Chinese or in the Filipinos in the Phillipines, or the Americans during the Bataan Death March. I bet you've never heard of Unit 731, where Japanese scientists killed approximately half a million Chinese, Russians, British and Americans through chemical and biological experimentation. Let's talk about what the Germans did in the Ukraine, or to the French and Italian resistance, not to mention of course the Holacaust. Or what the Russians did to the German POW's or the women and children as they entered Berlin, or the German civilians trying to flee occupied Germany. Atrocities you say? America begged Hirohito and the war council of Japan to surrender, and they wouldn't. In their arrogance and blind faith in Hirohito they disregarded the Pottsdam declaration as a bluff. Truman was faced with either using the weapons he had, or sending about a half million American and British forces to their sure deaths during an invasion of the Japanese mainlands. Not to mention the fact that the Japanese would have suffered probably 10x the dead and wounded they suffered during the dropping of the atomic bombs. But that's what happens when your country is ruled by someone who the people see as "a living God" as the Japanese people did with Hirohito. Sure I feel horrible that so many people had to die in that awful fashion, but the cold hard truth is that the alternative would have been much worse and Japan in fact, brought that destruction upon themselves with their aggressive and barbaric actions. You people who are claiming this is an atrocity by the US government know nothing about the circumstances of WWII. If you want to talk about atrocities talk about what the Japanese did in Manchuria to the Chinese or in the Filipinos in the Phillipines, or the Americans during the Bataan Death March. I bet you’ve never heard of Unit 731, where Japanese scientists killed approximately half a million Chinese, Russians, British and Americans through chemical and biological experimentation. Let’s talk about what the Germans did in the Ukraine, or to the French and Italian resistance, not to mention of course the Holacaust. Or what the Russians did to the German POW’s or the women and children as they entered Berlin, or the German civilians trying to flee occupied Germany. Atrocities you say? America begged Hirohito and the war council of Japan to surrender, and they wouldn’t. In their arrogance and blind faith in Hirohito they disregarded the Pottsdam declaration as a bluff. Truman was faced with either using the weapons he had, or sending about a half million American and British forces to their sure deaths during an invasion of the Japanese mainlands. Not to mention the fact that the Japanese would have suffered probably 10x the dead and wounded they suffered during the dropping of the atomic bombs. But that’s what happens when your country is ruled by someone who the people see as “a living God” as the Japanese people did with Hirohito. Sure I feel horrible that so many people had to die in that awful fashion, but the cold hard truth is that the alternative would have been much worse and Japan in fact, brought that destruction upon themselves with their aggressive and barbaric actions.

]]> By: ZachMichaelMihir http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-25995 ZachMichaelMihir Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:51:55 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-25995 Sounds interesting... I look forward to reading it. Sounds interesting… I look forward to reading it.

]]> By: rosiethornton http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-25651 rosiethornton Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:44:06 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-25651 I just got the book yesterday, and damn glad I did! I just got the book yesterday, and damn glad I did!

]]> By: fact-o-tron http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-25607 fact-o-tron Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:35:14 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-25607 Looking forward to getting this on order, soon as payday comes.... Looking forward to getting this on order, soon as payday comes….

]]> By: El Ciervo http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-25512 El Ciervo Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:43:27 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-25512 Just got the book in the mail, with all the messages on the inside cover signed by those involved. Nice touch, thankyou! The book looks fantastic, I can't wait to have a read now :) Jake. Just got the book in the mail, with all the messages on the inside cover signed by those involved. Nice touch, thankyou! The book looks fantastic, I can’t wait to have a read now :)

Jake.

]]> By: lmegabyte http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-25490 lmegabyte Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:36:10 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-25490 Saw it in a local bookstore today. Needless to say I snatched it up! Saw it in a local bookstore today. Needless to say I snatched it up!

]]> By: torsp http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-25462 torsp Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:21:51 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-25462 How about some international translations? I know a quite a few people in Switzerland and Germany that would be intersted in the book. I'd offer to translate, but I'm too lazy for 320 pages. Maybe translations from multiple readers could help. How about some international translations? I know a quite a few people in Switzerland and Germany that would be intersted in the book. I’d offer to translate, but I’m too lazy for 320 pages. Maybe translations from multiple readers could help.

]]> By: Reaper http://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/#comment-25453 Reaper Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:07:54 +0000 http://new.damninteresting.com/?page_id=999#comment-25453 Agh! I pre-ordered via donations way back when the book was first announced and I still haven't gotten my copy yet. Damned media mail... Agh! I pre-ordered via donations way back when the book was first announced and I still haven’t gotten my copy yet.

Damned media mail…

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