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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
The US has been playing with kid gloves thus far, you may feel differently, and that's your right. However, if we had wanted too, Iraq and Afganistan would be nothing more than parking lots now. Just ask Japan, they know what the US can do if it really wanted to.
The world isn't like Avatar....
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Yes, you supported my point.
For instance, American administration started war in Iraq under slogans "to defend Democracy and Freedom". But when a President of Georgia asked for miltary help against Russian troops in South Ossetia, American administration silently left him alone. A year before or so, GWB called Georgian President as "an ally and the leader of Democracy and Freedom in that region". You see, it's easy to deploy a total war with a relatively weak enemy and Mr Cameron clearly showed it in a mentioned movie.
As for "asking Japan". Well, they had no nuclear devices in 1945. But some later,
an American aggressive plan of nuclear war against USSR was cancelled when Russians succesfully tested an ICBM equipped by thermonuclear device. No one from apologets of a total war wishes to get a nuclear warhead atop a roof of his house.