How World War II wasn’t won. Were you aware of the actual history of the push into Germany? See LINK:

True. Shoulda, coulda, woulda never trumps reality. But I found it interesting reading to speculate on.

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 25th, 2009

You mean the British played some small part in World War 2?

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by Brian I on November 25th, 2009

lol
not just a small part.

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by zender on November 25th, 2009

I'm sorry, I was being sarcastic. I'm so used to Americans on this site telling me I would speak German if it wasn't for their country's efforts in that war.

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by Brian I on November 25th, 2009

haha don't worry
I got it :)

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by zender on November 25th, 2009

Thanks zender. Sarcasm noted. With the price the UK paid in lives and suffering in WWII, I can understand your reaction to American chauvinism.

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 25th, 2009

Would rather Europe spoke German the way it looks today...

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by Tismynobleright on January 29th, 2010

Very well said. :)

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 25th, 2009

I do not know. The Japanese were used to civil war in which surrender meant to die a horrible death of torture. I'm not sure what it would have taken to get them to surrender short of the threat of total annihilation.

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 25th, 2009

Another untold story might be lying somewhere. Even after the atom bomb was dropped the Japanese Generals had wanted to push on with the aggression. It was the emperor who called off the war and ordered his army to surrender. Otherwise the war would have taken a different direction altogether.

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by Suby the Coat on November 25th, 2009

Yes, I expect that Truman would have ordered the wholesale destruction of all Japanese weapons facilities, most of which were in major urban centers. A land invasion without doing that would have been enormously bloody.

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 25th, 2009

Well the aggression in their blood still thrives. It took the form of economic aggression in place of military conquest.

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by Suby the Coat on November 25th, 2009

Ha! If we can't bomb you out we'll buy you out. :)

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 26th, 2009

And they have had some measure of success, we must admit.

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by Suby the Coat on November 26th, 2009

It's been slow going for them lately, though. In the end, 120 million people seeking to dominate 6 billion is kind of like a flea climbing up an elephant's tail with rape on its mind. :)

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 26th, 2009

Lol. Very true. It can't be done. What they miss is the point that the times of military or economic domination are over. Now it is prosperity for all or nothing. Impossible to buy out economies through the back door. People have become cleverer.

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by Suby the Coat on November 27th, 2009

Very true. Such a change give me some glimmer of hope for the eventual fate of my species. :)

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 27th, 2009

... and my loss of it

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by Tismynobleright on January 29th, 2010

It's there now. For some reason links often don't appear for a few minutes - just another little Answerbag quirk.

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by Brian I on November 25th, 2009

Very interesting article. Thanks for that :)

On one hand, I think it would have been great to have possibly ended the war earlier. But on the other hand, I think it's easy to look back and say, ya we should have done this, and we should have done that. No plan can be executed with absolute certainty of victory. There are so many variables it's enough to make my head spin. Who knows, maybe it would have ended the war earlier, but who knows, maybe it could have cost the Allies on another front. Regardless, it's a story I had never head before. Cheers :)

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by techobo on November 25th, 2009

Ah, glad you found it, and thanks for the feedback, techobo.

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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on November 25th, 2009