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...Imperial Japan surrendered ending World War II.

And very probably saving the Japanese nation from destruction.

It's that time of year already? Will the History Channel finally put something history related on the air?

That's what History International is for.

Military Channel: atomic bomb specials, go!

And Pax Americana is born.

The war never ended, they just changed their plans and now are intent on destroying american culture by brainwashing us with anime!

LordofHats wrote:It's that time of year already? Will the History Channel finally put something history related on the air?

Hey some of those non history channel shows are good man. But I agree, sometimes I just want to watch History....... not 2 guys digging in garbage

Since the garbage is old, that makes it history

On topic: Hats off to the Greatest Generation.

Off topic: History International > History Channel.

Pickers, pawn stars, and other crap have no place on the History Channel. Just more boring realty show bs.

kronk wrote:On topic: Hats off to the Greatest Generation.

Off topic: History International > History Channel.

Pickers, pawn stars, and other crap have no place on the History Channel. Just more boring realty show bs.

I guess as a consolation prize, at least WWE wrestling didn't get on the history channel, thus making it a slight step up from the 'SyFy' channel.

Ugh.

Took two a-bombs, allied forces floating next door, and the Soviets invading in their northern territories to get the empire to surrender. Their atrocious crimes against humanity also go largely unnoticed compared to the Nazi's; thank god the good guys won - now we gotta do something about the whole whale situation/pissing off Asian neighbors by ignoring or downplaying their history.

China just passed them on the global sweet and sour pork/sushi world domination bowl.

Frazzled wrote:China just passed them on the global sweet and sour pork/sushi world domination bowl.

If we trust Chinese economic figures...

There's some people out there who say China cooks the books more than Enron.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Frazzled wrote:China just passed them on the global sweet and sour pork/sushi world domination bowl.

If we trust Chinese economic figures...

There's some people out there who say China cooks the books more than Enron.

True dat.

Geeze I have to stop reading my North Korea books, I'm just a fully on Commie H8er this week.

Fething commies.

I found this article today. Pretty disturbing.

Whether or not you agree with the bombs being dropped, you have to agree that they're horrific things. I can't believe people would advocate their use as anything but a last resort.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Frazzled wrote:China just passed them on the global sweet and sour pork/sushi world domination bowl.

If we trust Chinese economic figures...

There's some people out there who say China cooks the books more than Enron.

The Chi-coms lie about things? Never!


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In all seriousness though, the Japanese needed to be shocked into submission in order to end the war. Hell, Hirohito had to actually assume a true leadership position in order to stop the bleeding.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Geeze I have to stop reading my North Korea books, I'm just a fully on Commie H8er this week.

Fething commies.

Don't worry KK even us pinkos don't consider NK communist.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I found this article today. Pretty disturbing.

Whether or not you agree with the bombs being dropped, you have to agree that they're horrific things. I can't believe people would advocate their use as anything but a last resort.

Well to be fair, it was a last resort. We even warned them ahead of time that we were gonna do it. I was reading about the memorial service that we attended this year. Some of them wanted an apology for us dropping the bomb (mostly vets and survivors). I'm sure China would love one from them. Fethin WW2 Japs made the Nazis look like nice guys.

Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:I found this article today. Pretty disturbing.

Whether or not you agree with the bombs being dropped, you have to agree that they're horrific things. I can't believe people would advocate their use as anything but a last resort.

Well to be fair, it was a last resort. We even warned them ahead of time that we were gonna do it. I was reading about the memorial service that we attended this year. Some of them wanted an apology for us dropping the bomb (mostly vets and survivors). I'm sure China would love one from them. Fethin WW2 Japs made the Nazis look like nice guys.

Oh, I'm not contending that. There wasn't much choice, but that doesn't make it any less horrific.