Post by General William T. Sherman on Feb 17, 2016 19:28:04 GMT
The Light Bringer okay, thats correct and I'm not proud-at all- of those. But theres a difference between whats necessary and unnecessary.
Pearl Harbor was a strategic base in the pacific where the us fleet was stationed. It was dumb for the japanese to bomb it, but it did have a military role, thus you can't really say thats a war crime.
Nanking and Bataan? Not strategic, completely unnecessary and atrocious doings.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, again not proud of these bombings, but put yourself in the mindset of an american military strategist. Either you bomb the country with this new weapon, or you potentially waste millions of live by invading japan. Many estimates even say that equal, if not more, japanese people would've died in an invasion of the japanese home islands than the nukings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I stand by the fact that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were absolutely necessary.
Now we go onto vietnam. Some stuff done by the americans here were atrocious, such as the murder of women and children. But heres the thing: A lot of the women and children that were killed were fighting against the americans. An American soldier fighting in vietnam couldn't have just allowed himself to be shot by women or child, so then he had to do the terrible act of shooting them. And its not like they were cold hard killers who didn't mind shooting them, I've met Vietnam vets and they said they felt more guilty shooting those people than at any other point in their life, and it haunts them every damned day of their life. But even they know they had to do it, much as it hurts them to admit it.
Does that mean that acts of true evil were never committed by the Americans in Vietnam? Of course not, atrocities were committed and the americans who orchestrated acts such as the My Lai Massacre are quite frankly going to Hell. Those acts will be a permanent embarrassment to our country, and we take full responsibility for it.
Pearl Harbor was a strategic base in the pacific where the us fleet was stationed. It was dumb for the japanese to bomb it, but it did have a military role, thus you can't really say thats a war crime.
Nanking and Bataan? Not strategic, completely unnecessary and atrocious doings.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, again not proud of these bombings, but put yourself in the mindset of an american military strategist. Either you bomb the country with this new weapon, or you potentially waste millions of live by invading japan. Many estimates even say that equal, if not more, japanese people would've died in an invasion of the japanese home islands than the nukings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I stand by the fact that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were absolutely necessary.
Now we go onto vietnam. Some stuff done by the americans here were atrocious, such as the murder of women and children. But heres the thing: A lot of the women and children that were killed were fighting against the americans. An American soldier fighting in vietnam couldn't have just allowed himself to be shot by women or child, so then he had to do the terrible act of shooting them. And its not like they were cold hard killers who didn't mind shooting them, I've met Vietnam vets and they said they felt more guilty shooting those people than at any other point in their life, and it haunts them every damned day of their life. But even they know they had to do it, much as it hurts them to admit it.
Does that mean that acts of true evil were never committed by the Americans in Vietnam? Of course not, atrocities were committed and the americans who orchestrated acts such as the My Lai Massacre are quite frankly going to Hell. Those acts will be a permanent embarrassment to our country, and we take full responsibility for it.
