Posted on 08/06/2006 6:27:04 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
Thank God the UN wasn't around back then, we'd have had resolution after resolution without anything ever being done. As well, if the Dems of today were around back then, they'd want us to boycott Japan and Germany, and try to work things out through diplomacy. How about multilateral talks. Unfortunately for Murtha, back then we wouldn't have been able to redeploy our troops to Okinawa.
The Red Army crashing across the Manchurian border also convinced them the game was up.
If you look at the history of how tenatious the Japs were on Iwo and Okinawa you will better understand that our people knew it would take two bombs to convince them to stop it all.
Even after that there was still an attempted coup to prevent the surrender from taking place.
Many of us wouldn't be.
My three years in Guam was a cake walk compared to what the sailors, soldiers, and Marines of WW II had to go though. When ever one of the younger guys was complaining how hot it was there I just simply reminded them that it would be a lot more tough on us if we had to lug around 40 or 50 pounds of weapons and gear and had finatical Japaneese trying to kill us from every hole in the ground.
The devestation we had to inflict on the Pacific Islands had to be so severe for even a few of the Japenesse to surrender and many chose suicide instead, thier brainwashing was very complete. It would have took nothing less than what we did to secure peace.
Thanks for picking those guys out of the water!
I was just watching the History Channel show. It was pretty good until they dropped the bomb, and then it was all "pity the poor Japanese."
Just remember, if there had not been a Pearl Harbor, there wouldn't have had to be a Hiroshima.
Or another way to consider it,,the bombs spared a lot G.I.s lives, who went home to start families and generate a lot of "modern-day-certified-snot-faced-liberals. Sar.
Wow, thanks for the education. So much history here, and I never remember this stuff being in the history books that I grew up with ( I was born in 1946....)
it wasnt,school just hi spotted ww2.my teachers didnt know scat about it.what a bunch of libs.
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