RE: Could atheist westerners, please explain?
February 29, 2016 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: February 29, 2016 at 10:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm sorry that a dry and sober appraisal of the military reality of the use of weapons got in the way of your conspiratorial fantasies regarding The Evil Empire, Atlas. : shrugs :
We were getting our asses handed to us in the pacific, and it was significantly worse for the japanese. The bombs fixed that problem for both of us. It was Japans decision not to surrender, after the first, not ours. I;m sure you can find examples of the US -actually- being "evil"...so I don't know why you'd stick to this one, except of course for the rambling idiot factor. We emerged as a super power not because we had the bombs, but because we had stood back while all the other powers burnt each other to cinder...then mopped up the stragglers and claimed victory (the soviets were particularly salty about this, for good reason). Had we never invented or dropped either bomb this would have been the case all the same. Sure, sure, being a nuclear power with an unscathed homeland when the rest of the developed world was in ruins sealed the deal...but if all we had were rubber band guns we still would have been the last men standing and their cities would still have been in ruin. The greatest weapon we had in WW2 wasn't a bomb, or a fancy plane, or even our permanent war footing (which didn't exist -until- then). It was distance and span across oceans, and the fact that the fighting was in someone -else's- yard.
If you want to point to this span of time as support for your ramblings, I'd suggest you educate yourself, first......and -then- bitch and moan. What, do you think, was the islamic worlds contribution to WW2? Oh, that's right...they were so fixated on the destruction of the jews and allure of fascist nationalism..they threw their chips in with the fucking Nazis, and emulated their regimes. Good call there. Tell me again about WW2 and The Great Satan?
Sig allah hu heil -0/-
We were getting our asses handed to us in the pacific, and it was significantly worse for the japanese. The bombs fixed that problem for both of us. It was Japans decision not to surrender, after the first, not ours. I;m sure you can find examples of the US -actually- being "evil"...so I don't know why you'd stick to this one, except of course for the rambling idiot factor. We emerged as a super power not because we had the bombs, but because we had stood back while all the other powers burnt each other to cinder...then mopped up the stragglers and claimed victory (the soviets were particularly salty about this, for good reason). Had we never invented or dropped either bomb this would have been the case all the same. Sure, sure, being a nuclear power with an unscathed homeland when the rest of the developed world was in ruins sealed the deal...but if all we had were rubber band guns we still would have been the last men standing and their cities would still have been in ruin. The greatest weapon we had in WW2 wasn't a bomb, or a fancy plane, or even our permanent war footing (which didn't exist -until- then). It was distance and span across oceans, and the fact that the fighting was in someone -else's- yard.
If you want to point to this span of time as support for your ramblings, I'd suggest you educate yourself, first......and -then- bitch and moan. What, do you think, was the islamic worlds contribution to WW2? Oh, that's right...they were so fixated on the destruction of the jews and allure of fascist nationalism..they threw their chips in with the fucking Nazis, and emulated their regimes. Good call there. Tell me again about WW2 and The Great Satan?
Sig allah hu heil -0/-
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