Watching “Victory at Sea” on Bluray I was amazed at being how brutally America waged WWII. We used flame throwers as antipersonnel weapons to clear underground bunkers and a-bombs on civilian populations. In other words, total war to end it as quickly as possible. And that was with democrat presidents.
...and it ultimately saved American lives and our way of life. The survivors of those defeated nations became recipients of our benevolence, but only AFTER we delivered them from the evil they enabled against us. Blunt force has a way to clear the decks and change minds.
The American Heroes Channel has some great history shows on it. One of the old British WWII soldiers on a show last night said “We were good men who committed unspeakable acts of brutality because the enemy required it of us”.
I have been saying for years that in war compassion is defined by acts that end the war as efficiently and quickly as possible. Nothing could be crueler than the piece meal half stepping measures of liberal war strategies which prolong conflict indefinitely.
Sometime when you have a few hours to kill, look up FDR's executive orders issued from 12/8/41-1/7/42.
That man knew how to be a war President.
Don't forget the firebombings of whole cities like Dresden and Tokyo. Far more civilians killed that way in a day than by the A-bombs.
Demographics were different then.
The Greatest Generation first defeated the enemy and then reached out to get it back on its feet i.e. the Marshall Plan.
In regards to my statement about firebombing whole cities like Dresden and Tokyo in WWII causing more civilian deaths than the A-bombs, read up about "Operation Meetinghouse" on March 9-10 of 1945. 279 B-29s dropped 1,665 tons of cluster bombs, each carrying 38 napalm and phosphorus bomblets, on Tokyo, destroying an area where 1.5 million people lived. The individual fires merged into a conflagration. Both American and Japanese authorities minimized the counts at 125,000 deaths and a million injured, but actual counts were higher. This was the single deadliest air raid of WWII, greater than the A-bomb attacks.
That's the kind of war we need to wage on the Muslims. We seem to have forgotten how to win a war.