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zachart 03-22-2008 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by zachart (Post 432642)
well if US does leave then North Korea and China might start its missile test agian!!! Remember USA is the most powerful country in the world!!!:exballoon: :exballoon: :exballoon: :exballoon:

so no one agrees with this???

Ramones1976 03-22-2008 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Tenchu (Post 433670)
I dont agree. USA is not the most powerful unconditionally anymore. It could not defeat China without crippleing itself in the process. Russia backs China, so does N Korea. China has allies too, not just the US. The US might be more powerful, but that does not mean it can effectivly defeat everywhere, that is a misunderstanding.

And China tests what it wants, no? N Korea has restrictions, but not China, no?

Also, if it was a conventional land invasion with no chemical or nuclear weapons (which the US always uses when it is in trouble), then I would put my money on the Chinese Infantry Corp. The US infantry is one of the worst in the world in the terms of organized Armies, their effect only comes from their artilery, air support and armoured corp backing.

Agreed :vsign:

Tyrien 03-22-2008 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Tenchu (Post 433656)
Joly, Tyrien, you are both the same as Amnell. This is the fifth time I have had this conversation on this forum, so I am not exhausting myself on it again.

I think what you need to see though, and appreciate, is man has not changed. You have finished the war with Japan, and gone on in repitition to fight war after war after war. The civilian death toll you have launched is equal to that of all your enemy's put together...

The point in saying all nations fall was directed at the US, not Japan. One day the US will fall, before that it will probably loose its power and be overshadowed by other nations. All countries have their borders drawn and redrawn, the ones that are still here since the dawn of time, such as Egypt and Greece and Iraq, they have been conqured and torn apart many times, and nothing of their old empires exist today. So in effect, the US will continue fighting for its cause, rack up a murder toll of billions of people, mostly civilian, and then die out, and the world will have changed not at all. Nothing will be achieved. And the US is branded a murderer of women and children and unarmed men. Your country is on the most mindless campaign ever, and it is killing millions because of it. It is fuckin pitiful.

Do you actually have any evidence to support this or are you going to continue pulling inane theories out of your ass?

Like... you're not even worth trying to explain this to you. Everything that you word down is either bullshit, some crack theory that you think is the ultimate truth and doesn't really hold nearly as much ground as you'd hope, or is just full of irrational bigotry.

If you're going to hate something this much find a real reason to do so. Like fuck, this is just ridiculous. You might as well be shouting a Gihad crusader cry, you'd sound about the same.


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Originally Posted by Ramones1976 (Post 433674)
Agreed :vsign:

It really pissed me off when yanks try to act like their so superior :mad:

I just love how it's okay to toss around racial slurs and derrogetory statements around just because it's depicting a white person. Really mature.

It pisses you off when yanks try to act so superior? What do you think you and everyone else who has this set in stone all mighty final truth about the US opinion is doing? All you're doing is sitting up on a high above the clouds Olympian pedestal spitting on the US. Welcome to hypocrisy, I hope you're enjoying the stay.

Amnell 03-22-2008 04:06 AM

I think Tenchu underestimates our military a little out of a bias from being in a different country's military.... But w/e, that's not the point.

I see the flow of discussion has again moved to the nuking of Japan in 8/45.

Regardless of what Tenchu's strange sense of honour might make him say about America's "spirit" or whatever, the fact remains that dropping the two nukes was the most expedient and, indeed, least costly in terms of lives for both countries way to end that conflict. Had we used conventional weapons and tactics, as Tenchu has suggested... It would have taken millions of bombs to destroy what was left of the Japanese war machine, and probably with about the same amount of civilian casualties in the end--we didn't exactly have precision/guided bombs back then, so taking out a single factory involved about 1,000 bombs, 30 bombers, 70 escort fighters, the destruction of 200 homes, a school, two hospitals, roads, utility infrastructure and millions of dollars of damages. Why do you think London and various parts of Germany were in total shambles? CARPET BOMBING. Like smoking, it kills. That's what "Conventional" warfare entailed at that time. We would have done exactly the same thing, but instead of it taking a week, it would have taken another 6-12 months.

Then, after we bombed the shit out Japan, we would have gone to a ground fight. Well, guess what? The Japanese would have drafted every last citizen in the country to fight back the invaders. Not that they would have had to, since the Japanese are very proud and would have fought us without being told to. So, again, we see the "merciless slaughtering" of civilians by the ten-thousands, only by American rifles instead of American atomic bombs.

Take your pick: another year of bloody, attritious fighting or two weeks where two cities get leveled and the grand majority of those involved (soldiers, civilians in other cities, etc) walk away still breathing.

It's kinda like a cortizone injection: it hurts like a mother f**ker, but the end result is better for you.

I'm not saying that dropping nukes on Japan was a "good" thing to do or that it wasn't evil. I'm only saying that of the options present, it was the best, the lesser of evils.

In fact, I'd say that in every war we've fought in the last century, our leadership has always tried to pick the lesser of two evils. Obviously, you get the occassional grunts who felt like being dicks and ruining the image of all their buddies by stealing something or raping someone--that shit happens in every war by every side. On the grander scale, though, we always try to expedite things. This is also true for almost everyone out there.

Arguably, our current regime isn't quite so expeditious. Then again, that's just the nature of guerilla warfare.

EveV 03-22-2008 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Ramones1976 (Post 433682)
I was just saying I hate it when certain people in the us have that whole arrogant attitude.

Whoa chill, "yank" isn't prejudice at all, people from Britain and Australia call people from the us that, and aren't being racist, how is it arrogant? It just means a northerner. During the civil war southerners would call the union army that.
You don't know me at all if you'd accuse me of being racist :mad: :mad: :mad:
Don't pass judgment or assume when you don't know a person
I wouldn't judge you or anyone like that
I'm from Honduras, and have no sense of national pride of being from there.

Well I hate it when anyone has an arrogant attitude. Not JUST the U.S.
Limiting myself to one country would be discriminating. Kinda like you are. Regardless what the word " yank" is to you or not.


I'm from South America as well and Tyrien isn't and never has been a U.S citizen.
There's nobody here acting like the U.S is the shit.We're simply defending their actions.

Ramones1976 03-22-2008 04:16 AM

I just love how it's okay to toss around racial slurs and derrogetory statements around just because it's depicting a white person. Really mature.

It pisses you off when yanks try to act so superior? What do you think you and everyone else who has this set in stone all mighty final truth about the US opinion is doing? All you're doing is sitting up on a high above the clouds Olympian pedestal spitting on the US. Welcome to hypocrisy, I hope you're enjoying the stay.[/quote]

Will you relax, jeez, I never meant anything wrong by it, so sorry
I was just criticizing nationalism, when people say a certain country is the "best in the world" and everyone else is inferior, blindly worshiping their country without questioning...

Tyrien 03-22-2008 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Tenchu (Post 433688)
I dont understand. That was pretty straight forward. Is it to much for you to handle so you just swear at me? None of it is theory and it is all pretty simple and true.

What bit do you not agree on?

Is it that the death toll caused by American bombing in the wars it has fought in the last hundred years is in the millions? They have almost racked up a million dead in the last 6 years in Iraq. That is more than Saddam ever killed, you know.

About US falling in time, that is just plain obvious. Even if it did stand as a country for the next 2 thousand years, it will go through so many ups and downs in its power level and change so much, none of what you are fighting for is going to last nor will you be able to ensure your causes survival in the future. And in the meanwhile you slaughter millions. Is that not straight forward and obvious?

You are the irrational one.

You're not worth listening to if you're not going to provide some kind of facts. Facts seem to be why you're so convinced the US is the mother of all evil towards the rest of the world yet you're not showing anything at all, just blowing steam.

Your argument really holds no ground.

EveV 03-22-2008 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Tenchu (Post 433693)
Yeah, that is what is getting people. You are defending the murder of children and some how are acting like there was no other option...

War.
Look it up.
It's a terrible thing.
Japan and the U.S have done terrible things.
Most countries have. Some countries even do terrible things to their people.
That's human nature not the U.S.

sequoya 03-22-2008 04:21 AM

I think the US should leave Japan theres no reason we should stay there :pandasmile:

Amnell 03-22-2008 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Tenchu (Post 433692)
Amnell, what the fuck is it worth fighting for anyway? Freedom, peace? You slaughter civilians and continue fighting wars. Your deluded.

What the fuck do you care? You hate America anyway -_- . Not that I could give you a real answer to the question, since the corrupt asses in power right now all have their own damn ideas.

My point now is simply that what we've done isn't as bad as you and others are trying to make it sound. You guys are acting like because we used atomic bombs or because we've been involved in the three bloodiest wars of the last century that America is somehow the devil incarnate or some such nonsense.

We don't slaughter civilians. We do NOT go out, pick some random nobodies, and shoot them in the head. We do NOT go into cities, line up two thousand non-combatants, and cut off their heads. We do NOT blah-blah. That's slaughter. That's what the Japanese did to the Chinese, what the Germans did to the Jews, what Japanese did to American soldiers, what happened in the Crusades, etc. We have never done anything like that.

We dropped atomic weapons. We killed a lot of people with one explosion. The majority of them died close to instantly, not even aware that there was a problem. It was a tragedy, not a slaughter. (Slaughter is what McDonald's does to cows -_- )

Wars are part of human nature. You've said that yourself, so don't go saying "and continue fighting wars" like it's something spectactular. That's about as spectacular as you losing yourself all over your keyboard after midnight. BFD :/ .


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