RE: Why I'm not a terrorist
March 2, 2018 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2018 at 11:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
One of the shittier things about a war...is that you probably won't win it if you let the enemy produce, stockpile, and deploy necessary material and supplies. That work is done by civilians, pressed into the war effort. It would have made little sense trying to "target" members of the nazi party to the exclusion of destroying the war infrastructure (we did both). The same is true of the japanese war machine. Initially, we did plan to hit the emperors palace..but it wasn't practical (and had already been reduced to rubble by conventional drops).
Hiroshima was a depot, Nagasaki had the mitsubishi yards. Both had military and civilians present. They were good targets for the weapon (bad targets for some weapons..incendiaries had been ruled out for nagasaki, iirc), and good targets for the war effort.
The idea of soldiers fighting soldiers in open fields of battle free of civilians just hasn't been anything more than nostalgia for a century (more, I guess). We're not on horseback dueling each other for honor.
Hiroshima was a depot, Nagasaki had the mitsubishi yards. Both had military and civilians present. They were good targets for the weapon (bad targets for some weapons..incendiaries had been ruled out for nagasaki, iirc), and good targets for the war effort.
The idea of soldiers fighting soldiers in open fields of battle free of civilians just hasn't been anything more than nostalgia for a century (more, I guess). We're not on horseback dueling each other for honor.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
