Do your kids watch some silly Anime? Post-WW2 Japan. Wear a Casio G-Shock watch? A post-WW2 Japanese made that. Drive a Honda? Thank a post-WW2 Japanese for that. The next generation who came of age right after WW2 had more freedom in many ways than any other generation in Japan. Men who would not think twice about doing a banzai charge, laid down their arms, and started cleaning up the rubble. When the emperor did give the order to surrender it was like turning on a light-switch, Like night and day. If the Emperor hadn't ordered the surrender, and broadcasted his order over all of Japan, today the Japanese would be all but extinct. It was almost like the Japanese didn't even have a word for "to give up." We had to even change the wording for POWs from "I surrender" to "I cease resistance." at the suggestion of other Japanese POWs to get them to give up fighting.
Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Midway, Corral Sea. It was the latest in a long line of bloodshed.
The Battle of Okinawa was not the exception. The result? About 12,000 American dead, and over 95,000 Japanese dead over about 82 days of some of the hardest fighting ever seen in human history on a tiny, seemingly insignificant island. "The Battle of Okinawa." At that point, April 1945, the war was obviously over We had won, and it was obvious that the Japanese had lost. When asked why he dropped the bombs on Japan, Truman gave a simple answer: People today don't realize how hard the Japanese were fighting, we've forgotten it. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of MERCY. If they need any counseling along those lines perhaps they can consult Tojo, if they can summon his shade from Hell. So on this Hiroshima anniversary day, I would helpfully suggest that our collectivist leaders consider history and the Law of Unintended Consequences before it bites them where they live. It will not take four years and the deaths of countless innocents to change their war-making minds.
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The difference will be that while the Japanese embraced suicide in their warrior code of Bushido, these 21st Century collectivists are all appetite and no courage. And when they attack their own people - in surety of their expectation that they can win without consequence to themselves - they will discover with shock that Fourth Generation Warfare in an American context will make that move even more personally suicidal to them than Pearl Harbor was to the Japanese militarists. They have every bit of the ignorance and the arrogance that the Japanese had on 6 December 1941. I expect that the current collectivist crop of domestic enemies of the Constitution will likely overreach at some point. However, just because the Law of Unintended Consequences has yet to be enforced upon them, as it was on the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, doesn't mean it has been repealed. The Obamanoids are attacking individual liberty in this country root and branch because our of own inaction - because they have yet to be convinced that such behavior will have unintended consequences for THEM. They damn near did, you know, because the United States gave them every expectation by its inaction that they could. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they could, and because they expected that by doing so they would win the war. In that they shared the arrogance of all collectivist regimes of whatever stripe throughout history including, it must be said, the current crop led by Barack Obama. They were collectivist little "Sons of Heaven" and they served their Emperor in the sure and certain knowledge that they would win. The Japanese didn't expect that on 7 December 1941.