Originally posted by: EricMartello
Originally posted by: Amused
Considering the facts that my father would have been involved in the invasion, 1 in 3 (more than 1 million Americans) would have more than likely died invading Japan... not to mention the 300,000 +allied slave laborers who were to be executed upon invasion... I know for sure that you're 100% full of shit.
Japan and Germany had committed themselves to 100% total war, and neither spared civilians on any front.
Your lack of historical knowledge is only surpassed by your sad, pathetic hatred of your own country. Like I said before, this bullshit you're spewing may impress your elitist pseudo intellectual buddies and make you feel oh so smart, but realize it's just trendy history revisionism, and nothing more.
Now please, shut the fuck up, okay?
Translation...you're a dumbass who probably spends every weekend getting drunk and thinks anyone who can read at a grade 3 level or higher is a "elitist intellectual".
Hah! Don't try to turn this into a redneck patriotic issue...mah pappy dun go to JApan to kill em japs cuz we nukem first nyuk nyuk.
Yes, it's easy for those of you with a room temperature IQ to go all yee-haw about killin anyone who doesn't agree with your narrow-minded views...but the world does not revolve around your emotional sentiments. Do you think that the people killed in the nuclear blast did not have families? Your father may be important to you, but to everyone else, he's just another person - and in the military's eyes he was just as expendable as anyone else. People need to understand that joining the military is essentially saying "I agree to obey the orders given by superior officers, even if that means I will die." Don't join if you just want sympathy of you're fishing for respect that you can't get any other way.
Originally posted by: nick1985
A+++++ analogy, would read again.
On the other hand, you are aware that basically agreed upon by all historians on the matter that more Japanese civilians would have died in an inch by inch, yard by yard, take-over of the Japanese mainland than died in the A-bomb attacks?
Really? Because I was having a hard time dumbing the concept down any more...I mean the next step is pulling out a box of crayons and construction paper...
Again with your assumptions of what might have happened - but never did...If troops were on the ground in an attempt to seize control of the Japanese mainland, logic would suggest that most of the civilians would evacuate the combat area and that the military would put the are under martial law...similar to what might happen if Japan managed to land troops on US soil. In other words, the majority of the casualties would have been military targets on both sides.