Where did you get that from? It took the Japanese a day or two to even figure out what hat happened.
And on August 8th, a leaflet was dropped over many Japanese cities warning people that there would be another atomic bomb, and that they should pressure the emperor to surrender.
Of course, that’s completely ludicrous. The bombs were also dropped to justify all that research spending. The Nagasaki bomb also still needed some testing; Oh, and of course to make sure that the Russians got no influence over Japan.
There are two different definitions of a “legitimate” government. One is a government elected by the people according to a reasonably non-rigged electoral system. The US government just barely qualifies.
But there is a second meaning, and that’s the one that’s relevant for wars. By that second meaning, the Assad regime is the legitimate, internationally recognized government of Syria. And the idea that one should not start wars to depose another country’s legitimate government is older than most present-day democracies.
Did they? There were cases of family members being arrested for helping deserters (and “being arrested” by the Nazi government near the end of the war was a high-risk activity), but I know of no widespread killing of deserters families. And I’ve never heard it being used as an “excuse” by veterans, either.
At the beginning of the war, when the concentration camps hadn’t yet happened and nobody knew about any plans, there were plenty of volunteers for the Wehrmacht. People were proud to serve their country. That was just normal back then. I’m not passing judgement on generations that came before me, but people today should know better than to proudly join an army, follow orders and then claim its the civilian leadership that’s solely responsible.
May I suggest a compromise wording?`“Christian” does not equal “People living up to Christian ideals”.
In fact, “Christians” are a group of about two billion people with superficially similar beliefs. “People living up to Christian ideals” is a far smaller group of people, some of whom also happen to be Christians in the first sense of the word.
If you don’t distinguish between those two things, there will be some serious no-true-Scotsmanning going on.
