I have seen some documentaries about WWII and what we did to win that war. It seems that we are "pussy footing" around in Iraq. Please, no offence to all that are there now or will be. But I just needed to know.
2006-12-10 05:41:14 · 12 answers · asked by talowakse 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
HELL YES!!!!
if we had that WWII attitude today, the terrorists wouldn't dare tamper with the US.
after pearl harbor, young kids were dropping out of high school and lying about their age to enlist . also farmers, businessmen, factory workers, and even movie stars and professional athletes were willing to abandon their careers and fight for their country and the women willingly left their home to work in the factories and were surrendering their pots and pans and other metal objects to supply the scrap metal needed to support the war.
but then in the 60's, the marxist communist counterculturalists hijacked america's sense and sensibility and seized control of our media, education, entertainment, and any other means of communication to the masses and spread anti american propaganda and started pitting americans against each other.
today's youths are so brainwashed into hating their country that they believe we deserved 9-11 and that america defending itself is the ultimate evil.
if america was like it is now in the 1940's, people would be saying "what did we do to make the japanese angry"? or "retaliating makes us just as bad as them".
2006-12-10 06:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The American resolve to defeat the enemy was much greater back in WWII because the enemy was being portrayed as an evil that needed to be eradicated. It was easy to rally the country against a man like Hitler. And that Japanese attack on Pear Harbor really sealed the deal. These days, we're trying to be sympathetic to everyone and politically correct and trying to pander to minority constituents. Thus, the lack of that determination and resolve that was present in WWII.
2006-12-10 05:55:00 · answer #2 · answered by belfus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i experience that the severe time we went to warfare to strive against for our "rights and freedoms", we were wearing short pants and powdered wigs and used muskets. the in elementary words those who fought for our freedoms were individuals of the Continental military and the state militias and had help from the French. each and everything after Cornwallis surrendered has been a warfare of convenience or political maneuvering. i'm open to talk on WWII, yet I nonetheless believe that lets only have positioned more advantageous attempt into the technologies race (besides as covert operations to capture Germany's prized scientists). Our army ought to somewhat guard us from Germany's and they did not have airplanes that ought to bypass the Atlantic. for that reason, the in elementary words chance Germany presented replaced into of a nuclear nature. That "warfare" might want to were fought with scientists, not youthful infantrymen. also, after we took decrease back halfway, the eastern were now not a chance to us. ought to have reduce short that theater besides. not some thing after that more suitable our rights or freedoms.
2016-11-30 09:47:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We never had a "kill them all" attitude. In the first few wars, there were few to no rules regarding war. As for WW2, the majority of deaths were from suicide by Nazis or hara-kiri (basically, the same thing) by Japanese soldiers. As for Vietnam, well that was just hell.
2006-12-10 05:45:06 · answer #4 · answered by Huey Freeman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Times have changed...
In WW II the U.S. was facing off against a military might intent on world domination on on side, as well as honor-motivated surprise-attack tactics from a formidable empire on the other.
Nowadays the lines between what's "good" and "evil" have blurred: U.S. leaders become relentless and dominating, while "enemies" preach righteousness.
The U.S. is facing off against a divided sector of world population, many "preach" the religious virtues they praise while others actually practice them.
The war is against everyday people, scattered around their own territory.
No Third Reich.
No Empire.
No uniforms or allegiance to state.
Just normal people with a vendetta mixed in with others, their own countrymen, who wish for peace.
And if the U.S. were to run around "killing them all", they would prove that their "enemies" were right.
2006-12-10 06:27:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I hope so. There are innocent children and babies there that have nothing to do with this debacle that that the Bush administration is calling a "War to liberate the Iraqi people"...er ...wait...wasn't this about finding WMD's?....er..no wait....oh yeah, it was to get Osama Bin Laden. I think they forgot the objective. "Kill them all" just makes the USA look like "bullies". The Iraq War cannot be compared to WW2, that war had a noble purpose and a genuine cause. What we are mired in now is another Vietnam.
2006-12-10 05:56:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would say that there is a minority in this nation that does have a kill them all attitude. I know that there is a segment of the US population that supports requiring Muslims to carry IDs and/or labels on their clothing. I know that there is a slightly smaller segment that wants to put Muslims in concentration camps.
At least I hope that it is a minority.
2006-12-10 05:58:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the world wars we were fighting nation states here we are fighting an insurgency.You have to find them to kill them.
2006-12-10 05:44:48 · answer #8 · answered by miraclehand2020 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
politics that's the difference go to court for shooting the suspected enemy plain crazy, the lunatics have taken over the asylum things can only get worse.
2006-12-10 05:51:36 · answer #9 · answered by quasar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, but this time we just want them to say a prayer and shove christianity down their throats even though they're looking at a gun barrel as they speak.
2006-12-10 05:43:18 · answer #10 · answered by ... 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋