captaincranky
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Oh goodness no, I'm not a tech wizard. I come to study how people think they "build computers", when universal PnP allows them to just shove a bunch of parts together to watch the flashing lights, while they pat themselves on the back and crow about their accomplishment
The truth of the matter is, Japan conquered China before WWII, and the US liberated China. As I can't read since I used to work for the US Post Office, you might want to check the history books on that.
I read someone editorialize about how the "US was a touchy feely superpower", that feels obligated to rebuild that which they've destroyed. So it was with Japan and West Berlin. God knows, the soviets kept punishing East Berlin and their half of Germany until Ronald Regan demanded, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall".
Not only that, but the entire middle east is the US weapons testing ground. (Well the Russians are notorious for using the same general area to test their new destructive toys as well).
Here's where Trump is actually doping something very clever. He's failed to react aggressively against Iran for the drone shoot down and the ship hijacking. The Europeans don't believe his accounts of the incidents, So he's just laying back, and letting Iran make his case, as they start to attack ships under British flag. (Trump isn't actually as chronic an imbecile as was George W Bush, he just has a stronger will and bigger mouth than his veep. Then there's the whole pathological lying thing he has to fall back on).
As for giving Japan "shock and awe behind closed doors", that was hardly necessary after the battles of Iwo Jima, Midway, along with Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Actually it was China that won the Vietnam war, not Russia. We fought the "Korean Conflict" to a draw against Russia. It was great for both country's fighter jet development programs.
As for the tactic of bombing a country back to the stone age, it hasn't worked for the US or Russia in Afghanistan. It was already in the stone age long before our B-52s arrived.
Oh well, I suppose we got what we wanted from them. Peace out...
Now how about if mellow out and listen to some nice music?
I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war
And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs
On the radio talk shows and the T.V
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names
They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
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