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In reply to the discussion: A-bombs taught U.S. how to justify attacks abroad [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)any interests to defend here.
What did more for our peace was American interest in cheap products. According to most everyone alive that I have spoken with, including more than one veteran, they hated the Japanese - right up until they could buy one of their cars for $10,000 less than an American car. That's when you saw the parking lots at the memorials begin to fill with Toyotas.
What probably blew his mind were the false choices you gave him.
"I hope someday we all do have a new consciousness. " < Yeah, me too, but we just helped to "liberate" Ramadi, a city that used to have a million people. Because it was necessary to defend them. So it looks like we might still have a ways to go. I bet your Japanese student doesn't want this kind of "help"