Worst U.S. President

The Japanese had mobilizied the entire population to fight off the invaders.  Those families you speak of would have faced the American army with rifles and whatever tools and farming implements they could find, lets not forget the willingness of Japanese civilians to commit suicide at Okinawa by throwing themselves off the cliffs.  You think the Atomic Bomings were bad?  Just imagine uncountable waves of Japanese old men women and children armed with vintage rifles, spears and shovels charging headlong into the tanks, machine guns and artillery of an American army.

Besides lets not forget Japanese savagry throughout their campaigns in the Pacific Rim.  If anything the American firebombing campaign of 44 and the atomic bombings of 45 were but a taste of what the Japanese had been doing since the 1930s.

The US wanted to deter any other wars like that by using a show of force.  That was shown by the A-Bomb. 

On another note, the Soviets were closing in and the US wanted to keep them out of Japan.  To end the war quickly, they used the A-bomb.  Not only did it quicken their defeat, but it saved probally a millions lives or more.  Japan knew they were done but woul dnot go out without a bang.

Are you two (or three) saying that slow murder of hundreds of thousands of civilian people was justified just because the US didn't want to negotiate the terms of Japanese surrender?

What would you have preferred Versailes redux?  Actually this is a misrepresentation since the terms Japan was willing to negotiate seemed more consistent with a Japanese victory! 

I can't believe that anyone can defend such a point of view. More when such prominent US commanders as McArthur and Eisenhower thought that it was totally gratuitous from a military point of view (source). Its clear that any neutral justice court, abiding by the conventions of Geneva, would have condemned Truman and his circle to the hardest penalty for the most awful of war crimes: indiscriminate massacre of civilians.

Dude do you even know what you're talking about?  The Japanese were in the process of mobilizing the entirety of their civilian population!

Why should I? It's truly indignating. If at least you could separate ethics from geopoltics and discuss both in separate levels... but you seem needed of total justification.
 

Everybody else did. He was warned. People who knew what they were talking about told him. He was too stupid to listen.

He has committed too many stupidities to count or list. What about all that idiotic stuff about 'looking into Putin's eyes'? What about being too stuoid (and cowardly, another evidenr personal attribute)  to walk down the road and talk with Cindy Sheehan? That would have been a smart thing to do.

The US has never been in a worse economic and military plight than it is right now. And still he stupidly goes around threatening to use force against Iran and Syria. When it is abundantly obvious that the US isn't strong enough to meet its existing commitments, so the very threat is laughable. The US has never been laughed at and disrespected the way it is now. 

You certainly did. Why do you think there's so much opposition to the current US administration?

And you failed to realise that not helping was the smart thing to do. That you were on a downhill path to disaster from which the European countries in particular were trying to rescue you. The biggest idiocy in all this is that you were warned what would happen. We were trying to help. Iit was the US that was too blind and stubborn to recognise that.