[Cheburashka]

So you've already conceded that we would have inevitably have won, but you've decided instead to insult American troops by stating that they would have accepted a conditional peace. More nonsense.

You can insult American troops if you want, I sure won't join you in it. I also won't knock the Marine Corp, just because you knock everyone non-Marine.

[Jack Hammer]

My goodness, I surely don’t recall “insulting” ANY troops. Please point out to me where you feel I have done so, and I will immediately retract the offending phrase(s).

I merely asserted that the war in the Pacific could not have been won without the Marines, a notion with which, I suspect, most of the world’s historians of the past fifty years would agree.

That is certainly NOT to minimize the contributions of the other branches.