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To: PieterCasparzen
If that is a fixed target, then the AA is going to be right in that vicinity.

Have you ever tried to locate and ID a seven meter or less object on the ground while at 1500' agl and 175kts using only a Mark I eyeball. Thought not. Had you been the Air component commander during this phase, after a couple of cycles of your nonsense, the one target that would have been surely hit would've been your hootch.

Now that you have run out of implausible ways to force the Japanese surrender without invasion or the bomb your true heretofore unvoiced objection comes to light. Many posts back you were offered a way out. Then we could just say you are FOS, war is hell and we that live in the world of no unicorns so we say we disagree.

#30 posts to finally ferret out the truth; you have /had no concept of how the war was conducted, how anything military works, your 'ideas' on how to force the surrender of the Japanese were childish at best, you didn't have the courage of your conviction to argue from an absolutist moralist stance.

The good news is that any who read your twaddle this weekend will know better that to pay attention in the future to your posts on anything military.

214 posted on 08/03/2014 11:12:18 AM PDT by xone
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To: xone
#30 posts to finally ferret out the truth; you have /had no concept of how the war was conducted, how anything military works, your 'ideas' on how to force the surrender of the Japanese were childish at best, you didn't have the courage of your conviction to argue from an absolutist moralist stance.

There was no need to force a surrender in any particular timeframe.

It's morally wrong to firebomb civilians intentionally by the tens of thousands.

The good news is that any who read your twaddle this weekend will know better that to pay attention in the future to your posts on anything military.

I never claimed to have any military knowledge, I'm just looking at common sense and basic morality.

I used to feel exactly the same as you up until a few years ago regarding this topic, though. My grandfather enlisted at the age of 44, God rest his soul.
222 posted on 08/03/2014 11:29:34 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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