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In reply to the discussion: The US dropped two nukes on Japanese cities [View all]Caliman73
(11,767 posts)Sure, the American story is that the nuclear bombs were dropped "to save American lives". There are reports that the invasion of Japan would have "cost 1 million lives".
There are documents that dispute those estimates and other documents that say that the Japanese were already looking to surrender before the bombs were dropped. There are reports indicating that the bombs were dropped to scare off the Russians who had already invaded Manchuria and were looking to set up a foothold on Japan.
Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that caused all the bloodshed and destruction. However, like the fairly poor analogy you used here, the situation is much more complicated and you can choose to believe the narrative being fed, or you can look at all sources and see that the reality is somewhere within the different narratives.