You literally said, way to get all upset about a few thousands deaths and then go kill hundreds of thousands, either you're English is bad, you don't really understand the context of your words, or you just like to pretend you didn't say anything.Exactly, and I guess some of us are concerned with the mentality where you can get really upset over a few thousand casualties in an attack (Pearl Harbor or 9/11), then blindly worship uniform while forgetting completely the hundreds of thousands of casualties that result from the response that isn't at all measured.
This thread is LITERALLY about remembering those that died at Pearl Harbor, and you went all high and mighty and off topic.
Which started with every single post on the the front page having some sort of negative implications towards America and Americans.
If you would like to start a topic on what America has done wrong in the past go for it, and stop disrespecting the people that died on this day
But that's not what today is about. And your ridiculous bias comes out with every statement you make. Japan started it. Japan was going to fight to the "very last person" - including civilians. The United States ended it. War isn't pretty, but please have some respect for the people who fight them.
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Nice catch.
People continually forget that there are no easy decisions in war. Nuking Japan wasn't fun/easy/great - but it was the right call at the right time. People also forget that Japan's emperor called for his country to fight to the very last person. But hey, details are inconvenient, right?
I take my chances and well said, it was pretty obvious after Iwo Jima and the likes that invading japanese mainland would result in crazy amount of death and millions of dead civilians.
Also people dont think of the other options had they not used nukes, they would use airbases on captured islands near japan and bomb the shit out of them the old fashion way with tons of more dead people then using the nukes, and of course the war would have lasted for far longer.
And yes the japanese would have fought to the last man you could see that on the island battles before.
Also funny that not that many know about the japanese warcrimes or the second sino japanese war in general, dont think they teach that much in schools.
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Hehe yeah that i know.
Hey assholes:
This is a thread for remembrance of those who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Take your nation bashing somewhere else. You have a (legitimate) gripe with US foreign policy, fine. Make a thread about it.
There are people in this thread who had relatives they never got to meet because they died on those boats. Show some respect.
lit·er·al·ly: in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
I used the world correctly:
"You literally said" - as in, I was quoting 'exactly' what he said, and I was unsure if his mannerism was lost in translation (as his home country has a different language than English) or if he was just being purposely obtuse.
Yeah you didn't interpret what he was saying remotely "exactly", hence you're using "literally" wrong. For someone preaching about English you're pretty bad at using it. By all means go back and correct what you wrote, but sitting here bleating about how you were right is just... comical.
Sir_Mark_Oliphant an Australian working for Britain during WWII. They had two spare German scientists who defected from Germany, I guess they were Jews, and they couldn't put them to work on radar cause they were a security risk.
So Sir Mark Oliphant put the two German scientists to work on the atomic bomb. To his surprise they came back and said they could have an atomic bomb ready in two years.
So the British shared this info with the Americans because the Americans had mountains of money and it would take a lot of money to build these.
Canada helped too, they found a way of extracting uranium from ore that was crucial to building the bomb.
I don't know if Oliphant was knighted for his work on the bomb or it was something else he did.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
Ok, this thread has gone off the rails and devolved into topics far a field of the topic so I'm going to go ahead and lock this now.