Great topic, will contribute more when things get a little bit more heated up, but here foes my thought:
Although it's unfortunate, I think I agree with dropping the bombs. It was either them or us, that's how humanity works (unfortunately). If the Japanese would've continued, who knows how many more people, including civilians, would they have killed throughout Asia. I never understood how it's "bad" to drop two bombs that kill hundreds of thousands of people and it's "ok" to drop thousands of bombs, send thousands of troops to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Is it because they killed civilians? The Japanese weren't discriminating between civilians and military people so why shouldn't the Americans do the same? I LOVE Japan and the Japanese culture/people but not even they can deny their people were pretty ruthless before. They were, and still are, a country with a LOT of pride and they preferred to kill themselves than being killed by the enemy. We could see that train of thought ever since the samurais, up until the kamikaze.
