Fishing, Thorhammer ? Just because I despise bent bugle-boys doesn't mean that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Hey, have you noticed how the woosiest posters have the ' toughest' names ? Lol.

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668.....the neighbour of the beast.

Yanqui, go home.

Not fishing at all. It is just that your lack of experience and knowledge concerning the subject of war is very apparent in your views on how they should be fought.

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There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival. Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you must crush.

We are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of those in the service of country.

In not wanting to mass-murder hundreds of thousands of civilians I am failing in my strategy how exactly ? Lol.

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668.....the neighbour of the beast.

Yanqui, go home.

it would have been preferable for Germany and Japan not to have started the friggin thing to begin with and costing millions of lives.

if those A bombs hadnt been dropped when they were Japan would have dug in for an invasion, considering the otherwise highly admirable code of duty they had , the cost in lives of an invasion would have been in the millions and more years of fighting.
sometimes it is better to make quick clean cuts and cauterize rather than have the patient bleed out and die .

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I just neutered the cat , now he is a Liberal

I have to assume that you have not read all that much about world wars.
Second WW is a clear and direct result of the first one.
Soviet Union was highly expansionist along with Japan before the WW officially began.

But. Japanese had already agreed the peace.
There is no moral high ground to strike with a new weapon when the situation where `it was needed´ had passed.

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En uneksi. I do not dream.

But they had not agreed to unconditional peace.

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"Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few marines! God has a hard-on for marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?"

No, my friend, they hadn't. It wasn't until after the bombs were dropped that the Japanese finally agreed to the Allied terms as laid out in the Potsdam Declaration.

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There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival. Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you must crush.

We are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of those in the service of country.

Sorry I haven't gotten a chance to reply, yet. From what I understand, one of the reason for not accepting the Potsdam Declaration was because it was not clear on what would happen to the Emperor if Japan were to surrender. The Japan wanted to keep their Emperor, but the Potsdam Declaration didn't assure this. When they finally did surrender, they kept the Emperor, anyways. It's been said that if the Potsdam Declaration were a little more clear on this, the Japanese would have surrendered much earlier than they did.

Of course, I haven't gotten a chance to find links to support this, but I know they're out there somewhere.

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"Anyone that needs what they want, and doesn’t want what they need
I want nothing to do with
And to do what I want
And to do what I please
Is first on my to-do list"
-Gnarls Barkley, "Going On" lyrics

then they should have asked, like they did after the bombs were dropped.

Either way, the Japanese Prime Minister rejected the Potsdam Declaration before the bombs were dropped. It wasn't until the Emperor intervened after the bombing that they accepted.

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There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival. Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you must crush.

We are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of those in the service of country.

And in the absence of intelligent and humanitarian diplomacy, the arsehole Tebitts was sent on his way by the ghouls.

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668.....the neighbour of the beast.

Yanqui, go home.

Henry Kissenger killed 10 million civilians? Man, he must have been a busy-body.

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As one sitting at Okinawa waiting to Invade Japan I wholeheartedly agree with dropping the "BOMB" (when it comes to push vs shove) I valued my hide more than theirs. OR if you don't agree "Yours Too".