>>>>>>>Well Perry I am certainly no military expert and I would be interested in responses from people like Daniel and Tracy. It just seems to me that you can't bomb an entire country / culture out of existence. Hence you only end up with more resentment, more anger, and more hatred
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>>>>>>You can militarily defeat a nation amd if it is backed up with nation-building... things can work out. See Japan and Germany. The US nuked Japan and the US and Japan have a pretty cozy relationship now.
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>>>>>Have you got a modern times example of an AGGRESSOR nation winning a war and then having a cozy relationship with the people vanquished?
>>>>>Palestine doesn't quite fit. Any that do?
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>>>>>Germany and Japan was different in that they were both the aggressors.
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>>>>First of all, why does that matter?
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>>>If you can't see the difference, nothing I say is going to improve that.
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>>Seriously, what's the difference.
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>Evan, seriously, Jim is right. If you can't see a difference between the aggressor and the defender in terms of how they view each other afterwards then there's no point to discuss it.
Either way you will almost certainly have a conquered population that is hostile to the conquerers. Do you think it matters who started the war?
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