[Amnell]

CONSCRIPTIONS would have been called up had we got into a land war. A conscription, in case you didn't know, is a draft. And in Japan at the time, you wouldn't have been put in jail for not responding to the draft. Much worse would have happened. Hence, people that were unwilling to fight and by your definition innocent would have been put in front of American guns against their will and killed. The death toll for "innocents" was smaller as it happened than it would have been otherwise. The children that you seem so concerned about would have either been killed in crossfire, grown up to be drafted, or used to fight the Americans. The people killed would have been the same in the end. I'm not saying this again.

American GI's aren't pussies, no. I said it was a matter of "I live/he lives". That's also called mortal combat. Fight to the death. In that situation, most anyone would pick "I live" first.

An honourable man would see the lesser of evils and choose it, conscious of the cost of human lives. Honourable men don't cower from making choices because someone else might get hurt. If honourable men were like that, this world wouldn't have gotten very far.

Sounds like you have a lot of resentment based on some experiences rather than on information, from what I gather. I can tell you're a hard-head, like me. Lol, it's no wonder we've carried on this long :P .

And don't say shit like "Yanks can't see it." We're not fucking blind. We don't approve of killing children or others any more than you do. We're just a little smarter and realise that it happens and we deal with it. Do you think we uncork the champagne whenever a news report of a school getting hit with a 500 lb bomb meant for the arms depot right across the street comes in? If you do, god help ya, discussion over.

80%, huh? What the fuck do you know? Have you even been to America? Just how many Americans have you met? If it's less than 800,000 , I recommend you stop talking right now because a handful is NOT a cross-section of American society. For that matter, neither is 800,000. That'd be enough for a cross-section of California, maybe.

Seriously. Pull your head out of your ass. Take a look at reality. Read Ayn Rand. Re-evaluate your opinion of your own country ('cause I get the feeling that it's based purely on emotion), then re-evaluate your opinion of the rest of the world. You're a good guy, I can tell. Just look around a bit more.