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Originally Posted by theonlywhiteout
You'd like consider them war criminals. And before you lose your mind and get mad at me Robert McNamara and Curtis LeMay (2 of the highest ranking officers involved in the bombing of Japan during ww2) considered themselves to be acting like war criminals with the fire bombings of Japan, nevermind the Atomic bombs.
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Did LeMay ever say such a thing? I know that McNamara did (in that excellent documentary on him). I always thought LeMay was the crazy "bomb everything" kind of guy, in fact he was the inspiration for Brigadier General Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If the Japanese had decided not to exercise their imperial ambitions there would have been no need for an oil embargo in 1941.
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I'm going to play devils advocate here. Didn't the Americans themselves help foster that sense of imperial ambition in the Japanese many years before? Teddy Roosevelt pretty much served them up Korea on a silver platter, in addition to motivating them to become more like the white western civilizations that were thought to be superior to all others.