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What if the U.S. had been told to stop fighting Japan during WWII, the way Israel is being told to stop fighting Hamas?
American Thinker ^ | 07/13/2024 | Michael S. Goldstein

Posted on 07/13/2024 8:12:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

No matter its stated reasons, no matter how misguided its policy, the United States administration, advised by its historically anti-Israel Department of State, is putting severe pressure on Israel to stop fighting Hamas in Gaza, without permitting it first to achieve its war aim of complete destruction of this threat to its existence. They are doing it without regard for the consequences to Israel, its population, and to the Western world.

Given the arrogance of the Biden administration’s dictating a suicidal wartime policy to an allied government which must answer to its own people, it is instructive to consider the potential consequences, had similar pressure been imposed upon the United States during WWII to stop its war against Japan’s military, to relinquish the accomplishment of its war aims, and to negotiate, in 1944, a ceasefire with Japan’s military totalitarian government.

It is mid-1944. The U.S. military has secured Saipan and the other Mariana Islands and is preparing to build there a complex of airbases from which the new B-29 long range bombers would historically burn down many Japanese cities and kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilian noncombatants.

But in this imagined scenario, it is not to be.

A confluence of pressures demands that the U.S. military cease its operations against Japan, and, rather than continuing to completion what was its historic policy of demanding unconditional surrender, the United States government is compelled to negotiate a ceasefire with Japan’s military government.

Such pressure potentially could have come from politics in this, a presidential election year. It could have come from friends or allies; from an American public concerned with the deaths of too many Japanese civilians during the Saipan campaign, or because of the mounting casualty figures among U.S. military personnel.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; Japan; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; japan; japanese; unitednations; unrwa; untiednations; unwra; waronterror
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Islam is like fire - fine in its own place.

Don’t set my bed on fire.


21 posted on 07/13/2024 9:07:17 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
"Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens.

What about the US and Russian armies liberating the camps? Were they nobody?

22 posted on 07/13/2024 9:10:36 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: SeekAndFind

HARRY TRUMAN would have given them a lecture & kept right on fighting.


23 posted on 07/13/2024 9:39:34 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind; DownInFlames; FLvoter; who_would_fardels_bear; Brian Griffin; dagunk; ClearCase_guy; ..













24 posted on 07/13/2024 9:49:34 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

We’d be speaking Japanese or German now.


25 posted on 07/13/2024 9:54:47 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind
Israel needs to turn Gaza into a parking lot! Period!

Hamas are worse than German Nazi's. They are raised to be killers. F these bleeding hearts idiots supporting Palestinian murderers

26 posted on 07/13/2024 10:01:21 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: SeekAndFind

General Lemay says to turn Gaza into a glass parking lot!

27 posted on 07/13/2024 10:06:37 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark.


28 posted on 07/13/2024 10:08:35 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: FLvoter

Go away clown.


29 posted on 07/13/2024 10:11:53 AM PDT by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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To: Albion Wilde

bfl


30 posted on 07/13/2024 10:15:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: SeekAndFind
What if the U.S. had been told to stop fighting Japan during WWII, the way Israel is being told to stop fighting Hamas?

Well, if the U.S. was on life support from a foreign power who was providing the weapons, and whose legislature was awash in American cash to make sure the weapons kept flowing, then I imagine we would be expected to listen to them.

31 posted on 07/13/2024 10:25:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: SeekAndFind

They allies made up “rules of war” after the fact in order to punish Germany for not surrendering.

But then they had to live by those same rules, which basically no one can live by and win with. Thus why we can never win a war since.

Eventually someone who isn’t following the rules will win and when they do, there will be no more talk of rules.


32 posted on 07/13/2024 10:57:17 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: DownInFlames
Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been war crimes.

Yes. Hiroshima was bombed because of troop garrisons there. Unfortunately, most of the casualties were women and children. Something like 24 percent of the deaths and casualties were school kids 14 and younger.

Israel gets attacked by media if one baby dies while killing 200 Hamas combatants.

33 posted on 07/13/2024 11:45:09 AM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
"What if the U.S. had been told to stop fighting Japan during WWII, the way Israel is being told to stop fighting Hamas?"


34 posted on 07/13/2024 9:49:42 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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