Big thumbs up for the US

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Originally Posted by DexDexter

How well did the Americans understand Japanese culture back in the 40's? Maybe a lack of understanding a foreign culture (from the US side) played part in Japan refusing to surrender. The wars America has fought recently (especially Iraq) show a clear lack of understanding of non-Western type cultures and their reactions to things.

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If the Japanese did not understand U.S. culture, they should have kept their planes at home.
Stupidity has just rewards and Japan reaped three-fold.

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

If the Japanese did not understand U.S. culture, they should have kept their planes at home.
Stupidity has just rewards and Japan reaped three-fold.

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So you're not going to even ponder the question I presented. What kind of chit chat is that?

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Originally Posted by DexDexter

So you're not going to even ponder the question I presented. What kind of chit chat is that?

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NO.
Japan had already invaded China, had a war with Russia in northern China, the U.S. had already seen all of Japanese culture it needed to, plus the U.S. did not attack Japan.

The soon to be, General Chenault had been a part of the International Squadron and he along with other pilots had brought back facts about how the Japanese treated the Chinese, Washington was well aware of what type of murderous criminals the Japanese military was.

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

NO.
the U.S. did not attack Japan.

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They didn't? How do you explain the US military bases in Japan and the atom bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The US did way more than was needed to keep the Japanese away from the US soil. You can't claim it was just defensive warfare from the US part.

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Originally Posted by Eki

They didn't? How do you explain the US military bases in Japan and the atom bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The US did way more than was needed to keep the Japanese away from the US soil. You can't claim it was just defensive warfare from the US part.

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The U.S defended itself, and took the war to the enemy that attacked the U.S. and its allies.

Any one country who is attacked and does not counter-attack in defense to the utmost degree, the ideal is to the obliviation of the enemy, is a fool who deserves what ever comes its way.

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

The U.S defended itself, and took the war to the enemy that attacked the U.S. and its allies.

Any one country who is attacked and does not counter-attack in defense to the utmost degree, the ideal is to the obliviation of the enemy, is a fool who deserves what ever comes its way.

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So, you agree that Al Qaeda should plot more 911 attacks now that the US invaded Afghanistan? And the Taliban should take their fight also to the US?

IMO the ideal is to the make the enemy understand fighting is not worth it.
That's what the Soviets did to the Germans in Stalingrad and the Finns did to the Soviets in Suomussalmi and Tali-Ihantala.

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

NO.
Japan had already invaded China, had a war with Russia in northern China, the U.S. had already seen all of Japanese culture it needed to, plus the U.S. did not attack Japan.

The soon to be, General Chenault had been a part of the International Squadron and he along with other pilots had brought back facts about how the Japanese treated the Chinese, Washington was well aware of what type of murderous criminals the Japanese military was.

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I was talking about cultural anthropology, but forget it.

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Originally Posted by DexDexter

I was talking about cultural anthropology, but forget it.

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Lol, are you trying to rise the level of the discussion, better to keep it on Colt/ Donald Duck level, so that the other guy understand what you talk about.

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Originally Posted by Eki

Let's turn that around and ask if YOU would like Japan to take care of the military protection of the US or live on Japanese hand outs? Would you like to have Japanese military bases in the US?

The reason the US wants to take care and supervise the Japanese military defense is that they don't want to let the Japanese military to grow that big and powerful that they could take care of it by themselves and maybe become a potential military threat again.

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I don't know why we would not let them rebuild their military might. We are OK with Iran building Nukes. Maybe they could pop a few terrorists over in that part of the world. Or even that kim jong puke. We should take our bases out of there and save the money - we have Guam and that is close enough.

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Originally Posted by Tomi

Lol, are you trying to rise the level of the discussion, better to keep it on Colt/ Donald Duck level, so that the other guy understand what you talk about.

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The thing is, the constitution that the Commander of the the U.S. occupying force drafted for Japan, has stuck and the Japanese still live by it. Colt, Donald Duck, Gummy Bears, heavy metal and most other things American/Western thrive on Japanese soil.