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So much good international news that Americans now have access to all news has bias to some degree, most people understand this people who take either fox news or aljazeera that 100% face value are silly esp if they do so because it agrees with their preexisting world view

I am not backpeddling at all. I just dont get why you guys think that posting all the horrible stuff the Japanese did has anything to do with how our side conducted itself. The Pacific war was (as I am sure you all know) brutal and racist. While I feel our side had the moral superiority I also...

Please show where I compared them in severity? Please show where I compared the American rapists to brothels?

All I am saying is this is an issue that we dont like to address. In the first hand accounts of Hong Kong our vets talk a lot about the women that could be paid for sex (they usually claim the other guys and not themselves were doing it of course). Rarely if ever mentioned in our secondary...

Well I will not resort to name calling I suppose you missed the point where I stated "a lot of Americans" and "those individual Americans" I never said anything about the entire occupation force, just that sexual violence and the use of military controlled hookers in an issue which we LOVE to...

I dont have the book with me right now but will be able to give u refrences in the next few days (I am movign and everything is pretty much packed up). However Roy Harding and Wesley Down Under I was just wondering what books you have read ont he comfort women issue? The book I read was far far...

America could have maintained +30,000 troops in vietnam backed up by heavy naval and air support for a long time. I am not saying they would have won, I just think that the pullout they did was not their best option at that point in time. The deaths today remind me more of the Canadian Bomber...

thats why terry copp is my fav canadian historian that guy has done so much

I msged someone on this site who was writing some wierd stuff (since banned) and got this back I just thinks this shows the unrealistic worldview. If you mentioned that say the oldest Kennedy kid died in a bomber or the upper class british destoryed in ww1 I am sure he would say that these guy...

The rape in the Pacific and esp the use of hookers by our side as well as the rapes in Japan during the occupation are never talked about. The a lot of the Americans had a field day......

Yeah its true. I mean I havent suffered but seeing blue beach esp as well as the Dieppe cem and the 2 other big ones really makes you think..... to see 2000 or 3000 Canadians myself who died in a far away country in the prime of their youth.  :salute: It would be far too expensive to let every...

Dieppe was one of the best documented battles ever in human history (let alone Canadian history). Not just bc of Stacey but the manner in which he investigated and broke down the battle def set the mold. Its hard to say what more could be done on Dieppe and most later historians have either...

the media is a very good point. 24 hour news channels and blogs are a big one. I personally feel without tv and investigative reporters America might nt have lost in Vietnam. :P We should also consider that people have less children these days and invest more money in their education and...

Operation Spring was the 2nd worst day for an individual battalion after the RRofC @ Puys but that was all in one day the black watch got wrecked at least twice :(

Black Watch 1944 July 25th Hong Kong Dec 1941  Hong Kong and Japan Jan 1941-VJ Day

The trade deficit and budget deficit as well as the lack of personal savings of most Americans dont worry you. Compared to America in 1945 I would judge Americas economic situation to be pretty bad. I am more worried about the US spending too much on their military than too little. I think this...

not to mention the china borders mongolia, Viet, North Korea, Russia, India etc etc they got a little more to worry about than just the good ol us of a

We will see in 20 years. That is the earliest a decent peer competitor could emerge. Until then the US will keep their too many expensive and unneeded aircraft carriers while not having enough ground troops.  >:( Why be preparing for 2027? That being said, saying America has 200 years left or...

technically, if you have 14,801 members up to 14,801 members of this site could be G/L/B/T.  (sorry, couldnt help my self)

Well any totalitarian state has to be a least partly socialist as well, thats just a given. It would be impossible to run a totalitarian country that did not have serious socialist elements, it just could not be done. Based on the (liitle) i have read I would say Hitler was more pragmatic than...