The one thing I cannot stand about "Asian" website is how much "Asian Pride" bullshit goes into the posts.

They talk about the racial injustices of the past commited by the Americans (which I do not deny), then they go on and with statements like:

~as far as i'm concerned....HISTORICALLY speaking, U.S. did this shit due to there racist shit they do (umm...native americans, slavery, chinese exclusion act, iraqi war....).....think about it...the shit this gov. has done...take a step back, these motherfuckers are racists as hell....yeah, and god bless america...

Yeah! Go! Way to generalize the whole of American history to support your cause.

And what *really* pisses me off is that these people who argue points and ramble. This is how debates about the legitimacy of the atomic bomb turns into Bush-bashing.

I visited the YW link Will sent me in the previous post (thanks!), and I'm just simply appalled at the level of idiocy. Granted, some few do have good points but the majority of them like to group arguments into generalities with no research/background and then post it into a nice little flame.

Think of it as dumbasses with the Xangas, but instead of writing about their boring-ass lives, they're trying to make political commentary.

I saw someone talking about how "We had supplied Saddam" and "how we set-up the Taliban." Oh god. Please don't.

America did not trigger the war with Japan. The US did not look out in the interest of Japanese civilians when dropping those bombs, because our commitment was not to make sure the most number of Japanese civilians survived. Our commitment was to our troops and to American citizens. If a weapon saved American lives, then so be it. This wasn't Desert Storm II where we had pinpoint accurate weapons where we could simply hit military installments and avoid civilians. Even more, we didn't have the clear technical advantage or the locational advantage that gave us leeway to take into account of sparing innocent civilian lives. The goal was to end the 6 year war as fast as possible. Not to save as many lives.

Anyone who tries to make the atomic bomb dropping theory into some racially-motivated crime is a f'ing dumbass, which is what AzNs LOVE to do. Their reasoning goes as follow: "America commited racial crimes against the Japanese. America dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. Therefore, the dropping of the bomb was racially motivated." GOOD CIRCULAR REASONING.

No, really, I shouldn't be so critical. Part of it is general ignorance. There is a stigma associated with nuclear bombs that is generally unfounded. Would it have been more preferable that we used firebombs instead of nukes? I mean, the Tokyo firebombing murdered 100,000 people. Why dont' people complain about this with the same frequency as the atomic bomb?

There's a stigma associated with nuclear power in general. And people need to get their heads out of their asses and realize it.

War sucks, people die. There's no way around it.