RE: History thread [split] from "New Rule - Promoting Terrorism"
June 20, 2018 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2018 at 2:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Any invasion of japan, regardless of the initial casualties..would have turned into something we should all be very familiar with today. The difference being that those combatants would have been the equals of american forces from the very start...and we wouldn;t have been going..even on pretext, to save or liberate anyone. My Lai would look like a humanitarian relief effort in comparison.
My personal favorite, on the decision to nuke japan...and maybe one of you guys can remember who said it for me..is that it really wasn;t much of a decision at all. They had an idea of the cost of an assault. They understood that the japanese were ready for some desperate shit, they;d just had a bit of experience with that in the island hopping campaign, and they possessed a weapon that could sidestep all of that. Domestically, we might have lynched the president of the united states if we learned that he could have dropped the bombs and instead decided to send more american sons into the meat grinder on account of.... maybe... saving a few japanese lives? At that point in time I;m pretty sure we;d have accepted 500k (any number, really) dead japanese babies in trade for a single american soldier.
My personal favorite, on the decision to nuke japan...and maybe one of you guys can remember who said it for me..is that it really wasn;t much of a decision at all. They had an idea of the cost of an assault. They understood that the japanese were ready for some desperate shit, they;d just had a bit of experience with that in the island hopping campaign, and they possessed a weapon that could sidestep all of that. Domestically, we might have lynched the president of the united states if we learned that he could have dropped the bombs and instead decided to send more american sons into the meat grinder on account of.... maybe... saving a few japanese lives? At that point in time I;m pretty sure we;d have accepted 500k (any number, really) dead japanese babies in trade for a single american soldier.
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