re: Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki genocidal?

I've been saying the same for months. Would Japan or Germany have unconditionally surrendered were it not for their cities being destroyed? Of course not, and that would have caused WWII to drag out for years. The West has seemed to have forgotten the lessons of WWI & II and that's why the US hasn't completely "won," a war since. We seem far more interested and concerned with international approval and hearts and minds than actually finishing a war by any means necessary.