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Originally Posted by Colonel
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Originally Posted by Tripper
...It's pretty ridiculous you can't look past what happened 61 years ago and see them as the close ally they are, and maybe realise what you wouldn't have had your country not helped rebuild theirs....
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Tripper, you make me chuckle. Thanks for keeping this thread going. I'm not sure what you mean by the second part of this sentence. Are you saying that we wouldn't have the US today if it weren't for the Japanese? |
Oh ya, picture a comma after have, and before had - and it should read correctly.
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BTW, I can certainly look past what happened 61 years ago. I wouldn't have worked for a Japanese company for ten years if I was living in the past, or if I didn't "see them as a close ally". But I do find it funny that you are getting this upset about a statement concerning something that I jokingly said should have happened 61 uears ago. I didn't say it should happen today. I didn't even jokingly say it should happen today.[/quote:4fcc1]
You said you were joking first, and then you tried to make me wonder or something by posting that "maybe" you thought all that stuff, and then even posts after that you seemed serious - This is the internet, I can't hear the 'tone' of your text - So I was just plain confused by how you were joking about it. The fact that you tried to dispute all my points made me believe you were arguing your point which was that initial post that I reacted to in the first place...It's not that funny, it
might have been funny, if you were more obviously joking...
[quote:4fcc1]But we did drop two atomic bombs on military targets in Japan and many civilians died. That is truly a shame, but I think we did the right thing at the time. I've been to Hiroshima. I've seen their museum about the bombings. Your right in that it was "horrible" but I believe, at the time, it was necessary. And it was no more horrible than other things done on a larger scale by other countries.[/quote:4fcc1]
I believe that the allies fight in WW2 was largely righteous...I have family that fought, too - A couple of my dad's uncles never came back from North Africa...I also believe that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were warranted in forcing the Japanese to submit to surrender for the benefit of both countries. This is reinforced by the fact that Japan was so determined that they only surrendered after the SECOND nuke...Had we dropped another nuke after they surrendered, that would have made our countries just as evil.
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[quote:4fcc1]P.P.S - As if you give a crap about chinese civilians....You do realise they've been responsible for several atrocities, some against americans since WW2?[/quote:4fcc1]
I like the Chinese. They've got great food and many fine restaurants in the US. Can't you look past what happened years ago and see them as the close ally they are?[/quote:4fcc1]
I don't particularly like the Chinese, but for other reasons, and I do have my reasons, its not because of their history....But thats not the point and never was - Because I never said I didn't like the Chinese in any of my posts, I was offering you a question for why you could (had you been serious) hate the japanese that much for what they did to the chinese, when the chinese have done many bad things also, and some directly to americans since you guys saved them from the japanese.