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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Not hate, am disgusted, as am I with many other people. I know that. What is worse is the lack of shame and their pride in the stead of the dead innocents.
Needless bloodeshed? No honor? Slaughtering an army of willing militia and soldiers to save the lives of innocents is more honorable than burning cities full mostly of civilians to the ground. You are disgusting. I dont think you know the first thing about it. No Samurai nor Knight nor man with an honest stomach would openly feel shameless about murdering the innocent.
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You are really crossing the line into personal attacks here, IMO. I have a great deal of honor, it's why I chose the name Samurai. I've said many times that it was tragic and sad that so many people had to die in WW2, soldiers and civilians. Millions of people died, and millions more would have died if the war had gone on and we'd had to invade the Japanese islands. You seem to want to overlook all of that, and simply attack America. We ended the war after being attacked and brought into it, and we did so as quickly as possible. If we were as bloodthirsty as you claim, why didn't we just slaughter the Japanese after they surrendered? Why did we instead help them to rebuild, achieve a peaceful and independent democracy, and assist them in becoming the world power they are today?
It was a terrible choice, to lose a couple hundred thousand civilians, or millions of civilians and soldiers. Japan could have surrendered sooner, after Okinawa, heck, even after Hiroshima and the Russians declaring war. They chose not to. At what point will you lay any blame on them for their atrocities in WW2, and for their unwillingness to surrender even when defeat was inevitable?
Oh, that's right, you've never even heard of the Rape of Nanjing, the Bataan Death March, Unit 731, the "Comfort Women", or anything else besides the things America did, have you? That shows that you've either had an incredibly lopsided (and poor) education, almost to the point of indoctrination, or you simply don't care to learn about such things as it might dull the white-hot focus of your America-hatred.
Honor is not about killing as many people as you can, so long as you "look them in the eye", as you say. It's about having the courage to make incredibly tough decisions about the greater good and the willingness to carry them out. WW2 was full of tough decisions, like the choice to temporarily ally with a monster like Stalin in order to defeat an even bigger monster like Hitler, or the choice to invade Africa and Italy or go straight for Germany, or the choice of whether to drop the bombs and try to end the war with a minimal loss of life, though still a couple hundred thousand innocent civilians, or invade the islands and kill
millions of men, women, and children as well as hundreds of thousands of US troops. War is not full of simple easy answers, and sometimes it requires distasteful decisions in order to prevent a greater evil or just to get the job done and the war over with.