rogue49

OK...forget the A+ and all that other bullshit.
The reason I threw that all out there was because you call my supports of opinion sarcastically "facts".
And I did not appreciate someone questioning this in this tone...my bad.

My point is this...yes, while certain things did not ACTUALLY happen.
You can NEVER get what ACTUALLY happened...even if it did...it's all perspective.
And thus you can never really tell what "could have" happened.

It's a viewpoint, it's a judgement call...even now, after the fact.

All you can do is absorb as much info as possible, and make a judgement call.
And thus, this is what happened back then.

The US & the Allies...had all this info "facts & stats", whether accurate or not.
They lived it, not us...there were certain events and experience we cannot comprehend.
And despite their worst fears...they felt it was necessary to follow through.

It's like this...I have a good friend, a mother, who was VERY against the death penalty.
And in all our debate and "what if's"...she was firm on her stance,
then I asked...well what if a man came along and had sex with your little 5 year old boy, and then hurt him even more...maybe to death.
Her reaction was INSTANT..."I'd kill him!"
I said "see"...she was now convinced of certain realities where she'd would do so.

This is what happened back then, they were in a WORLD war.
Thousands of people had already died, including their own sons & daughters.
They were fighting a people that had already shown aggression and a unwillingness to back down as necessary.
They saw that they were slaughtering 5 times as many as their own in taking back what was taken.
And had the situation where they would have to invade an even larger enemy...and deal with even non-military as potential combatants.
They had another aggressive nation taking more land under pretenses.
They had just finished another aspect of the war on the other side of the world.
They saw an opportunity to cut it off right there.

Now imagine if you slowly saw all your sons, your friends sons,
your town's sons and watched many of them die fighting a war in a far off land.
And if your representative came to you and said,
"Well we have this way of shocking them to surrender now but it will kill many,
or we can make them stop but it will take a long time, cost more sons live but the battle will kill even more on their side.
Oh yeah...and by the way...the Russians are taking even more land in this time too."

Which would you do? Which was right?
You tell us, how you would stop this war FAST.
So you don't have to see another young person in a body bag.
Maybe even you own child

Not so easy now is it?