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Originally Posted by Amnorix
The Japanese paid for Pearl Harbor many times over. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are only the best known of it, at this point. Operationg Meetinghouse, March, 1945 is the most destructive air raid in history, resulting in a firestorm (estimated at 1,800 degrees F in some places) that destroyed 25% of Tokyo, one of the largest cities on earth, with an estimated 100,000 dead and over 250,000 buildings destroyed.
They ****ed us, and they got their ass beat. For 50 years they've been one of our staunchest allies. Pearl Harbor should be commemorated for the lives lost, and the war begun, but not to revisit ancient wrongs long ago repaid with heavy interest.
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I'm really curious how they and Germany (and Italy) really seemed to switch sides quickly and become allies. I have no faith that Iraq and Afghanistan will do the same. Is there something about the more civilized countries where they're better able to see the light than are third world countries? Is it a Middle Eastern or Islamic thing where those countries are incapable of change?
Even Vietnam now seems to be friendly, which intrigues me. It would seem like they have all the reason in the world to hold a grudge - and us with them in return - but 25 years after the war I can go on vacation there. So it's not necessarily a third world thing.