you guys are welcome to disagree and i do agree with many and say that it was terrible with the amount of losses, but we gained many important things IMO. after world war two the usa was in a fairly regular schedule of war and that kept us brimming on the edge of technology. this left the USSR constantly trying to catch up not inventing new things which put us at an advantage. this was one of the major things that kept the cold war stable. i would imagine if the USSR had stated to pull ahead in tech. america might have started a war. we now know that the USSR had no real intention to attack us directly because they felt they weren't going to have to they were only going to have to defend themselves.
this may seem outragous to some of you, that we paid for a small amount of dominance with inumerable american lives, but my state of mind tends to look at the world and occurences that the ends justify the means.
sorry if any one is offended but just my view and opinion from intense study of history.
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