Originally posted by cybotron@Aug 16 2004, 12:15 AM
Yep... That's a squid talking. That's a sailor. The common bond between all that go down to the sea in ships. 
[b]The Racist world that produced the Yamato and the murdering militarism that utilized it, and the Eurocentric policy that forced the use of expansion by force of arms from Japan. May that world never rise again... I'm glad they're all gone. I'm glad they all passed away as an evil nightmare of drunken hatred and folly of misunderstanding. Stay drowned. In Davy Jones Locker forever. :wacko:
The ones I feel sorry for are the Teenage Marines that died on the beaches and never even got to smell a girl. And the poor Japanese boys that died on those stupid islands so the surplus population of Japan could be reduced by Black Dragon eugenics. And what really hurts me... The poor kids that died in those paper houses in the firestorms. To hell with battleships. :angry:
Now in this world, the Marines of Japan and America train together under Japanese and American officers. The master warriors of Japan train the Marines of the USA in the secrets of war. The NINJA DO of Tiger Tanaka turns out hybrid Ghost and Shadow Ninja to fight a new war against the Iblis of Mecca. And the world awaits it's fate of evil insane urban suicide warfare.
And there ain't gonna be no naval glory. :wacko:
All salute the Tigers of Armageddon!!! This is your world... The old world is dead. :wahah:[/b]
It is interesting to hear you state this. Just 150 or so years prior to WWII, the USA forced its way into Japan, and likewise dictated trading terms with her. The Japanese had heretofore been content to war only amongst themselves; but by this act were made aware of the world around them, and the possibilities for conquest. There was one particular emperor (name eludes me) who modernized Japan, instructing his blacksmiths and sword makers to copy the designs for the weapons that the Americans brought with them. Within a few decades, Japan was well on her way to becoming a world power, and conquering weaker neighboring states, just as the Europeans and Americans had done.
Japan, among the victors of WWI was denied an equal share of the colonial spoils. Moreover, the West tried to limit her naval forces. There were likely other humiliations also, but I know of these off hand. So, when Japan went to expand its colonial holdings by force of arms, just as Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and even the USA, etc, had all done, the US, apparently not liking the Japanese to play the same game of conquest, cut off sales of oil. No doubt racism had something to do with it. Else why support France's attempt to conquer Vietnam? Did they really expect us to believe the French would liberate those whom they had formerly held under colonial rule from the Communist's rule? The Japanese realized that there were islands rich in oil, but that the USA would likely interfere with their bid to conquer them, as they lay closer to the US sphere of influence than those nations Japan had already conquered or begun to conquer.
All this does not lesson the brutality that the Japanese inflicted upon those conquered nations. However, let us not forget that the West had a blood-soaked past, too. It seems that with the modern electronic communications that tyrants are less tolerated than before. Everybody knew about the Khmer Rouge's bloody campaigns against helpless civilians. Likewise, with the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Japanese' atrocities in China, were not widely known until after the fact. But when the Americans drove the Indians off their land, massacred them, even used biological warfare against them (because they had no resistance to the flu) by trading contaminated blankets etc, there was neither such mass communication, nor mass-condemnation. When the US likewise decided that the Hawaiians and the Filipinos were unfit to rule themselves, they stepped in (by force of arms) & deprived them of self-rule.
These things are all quite bad, but let us not remember other nations' faults while conveniently forgetting our own.
B)
