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Originally Posted by GermanBlitzkrieg
Mavdog, do some research. The Nazi faithful had insurgent activity (terrorists) 5 years after WWII. The battles in the Pacific continued long after the treaty with Japan was signed.
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you are comparing apples and oranges. there were rouge elements of nazis who were able to act, yet those elements were 1) not an organized resistance but more like criminal gangs, and 2) not like the iraqi insurgency in the ability to take control of complete cities. The same is true of the japanese, where forces who were still fighting allied troops did so because they didn't even know the war had ended.
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You young people don't know very much aboutt history, do you?
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take a look in the mirror...
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Do you have any idea how many American men lost thier lives just on the PREPARATIONS for D-Day? Not the actual battle, but just the weeks prepping for the battle? Over 2000!
That was in PREPARATION for ONE battle in the war.
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gee, thanks for bringing that up. too bad it has nothing to do with the discussion...
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Do you know how many Americans were lost in WWII? Over 400,000!
The problem with people today is lack of perspective.
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to compare the war in iraq with ww2 is what can best be described as a "lack of perspective."
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Do some research. Realize everything living dies, including yourself. Then, decide what's important, realizing that no matter what anyone does, everything alive dies.
I don't want to die. But to try to make decisions on the basis of some overall "Save This! Save that!" philosophy, as if you are providing immortality to that person or animal, is delusional.
Acting as if the trouble ended when Tojo signed the treaty to end WWII and all hostilities ceased, and some sort of final peace magically happened, is ignorance.
Like it or not, people will ALWAYS have conflict. Unless we all become "global citizens" as part of the dictatorship some people want.
Oooh, Oooh, gotta get my tin foil hat on! They're trying to take me over! AAAAAHHHHH!
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such a fatalist philosophy...
war is not an action that should be pursued as a natural course of events, it is an action that should be a last resort to reach a necessary result. the phrase "war is hell" has truth to it.
those who advocate war as a natural and acceptable means to resolve conflict do need to remove the foil hats from their heads. they are living in a fantasy land, war provokes more and more conflict, it does not reduce it. is that you? wake up before it's too late....