"Do you think that Hitler was more vicious or killed more innocents than Stalin? Was Tojo more henious than Mao? If so, use other sources of information than the NY media and your HS history book."
That response totally avoids answering the question: "Do you really believe the destruction of Nazi Germany, of Imperial Japan, were not in our best interests?" Why don't you try responding with something more than gratuitous insults?
"Do some research on the topic and get back to me. Until the the teeth of the British lion were pulled, the UK was the most reprehensible empire (among other atrocities, they were the first to incarcerate civilians in concentration camps) until the birth of the USSR."
More gratuitous insults instead of responding to the question: "Do you believe it was not in our best interests to respond to unrestricted submarine warfare against our merchant vessels (WWI)?" I'll add one more question: "Since the British Empire was so evil, would you care to explain how it's dissolution lead to peace, prosperity, and universal brotherhood through out the world?
"A few? Use as many as it takes."
I would have thought you'd have noticed after eight years of cruise missile diplomacy ala Bill Clinton that bombing mud huts does not eradicate terrorism.
"Ground troops get killed. Surviving terrorists will have a tough time keeping their footing on glass."
Ground troops also kill terrorists. Now who has the best record of killing terrorists, Bill Clinton or George Bush?
"Get back to me when you volunteer to put your, or your son's, ass on that side of the line."
More gratuitous insults. My friend, I was wearing Army green when you were still in diapers.
Please forgive my attemps at understatement and subtlety. Your perserverance deserves better.
The Brittish gave Goebells lessons in effective propaganda. Truely effect propaganda does as intended without notice. The Britts convinced us with help of Pres. Wilson to sacrifice our treasury and our young men for the preservation of UK hegemony.
As for my comparisons, Hitler vs. Stalin and Tojo vs. Mao, without the connivance of Churchhill and FDR, would have been moot.
If we would have kept out of WWII, Stalin would have been overthrown and would not have been able to arm Mao. Hitler would have found Mother Russia indigestible and his socialist empire would have fallen apart by 1950, if not sooner.
As far as the Japanese are concerned, they killed fewer Chinese than Mao, and they would have been less a threat than the ChiComms are now. Without the goading of FDR and our trade embargo, they would have had no quarrel with us.
"Since the British Empire was so evil, would you care to explain how it's dissolution lead to peace, prosperity, and universal brotherhood through out the world?
Do you mean the British Empire that introduced the international trade in opium, pushed us into WWI, abandoned its colonies in the Indian subcontinent and Africa to anarchy? The reference to civilian concentration camps was not gratuitous, it was practiced during the Boer War.
Gratuitousness is epitomized by your continual references to Clinton. Clinton, was and is, an ass. As indicated by my reference to glass, I did not have his half and quarter measures in mind.
As far as service is concerned, I put in my eight years of obligation that ended with nine months in France in '61-'62.