So four waste of time posts because of a wooden headed interpretation?

Key line in my post:

"Pretty much spot on except for two sideline issues:"

Anyways, topic closed.

>Let me ask you this straight. Since you've "read a lot about japan" and your friends >didn't enjoy their stay there does that mean japan deserved to be bombed the way it >had been bombed? Yes, I've read a lot about Japan and know people who live there or who lived there and I don't understand your ...

Pretty much spot on except for two sideline issues: Japan beat Russia in 1905 in the Russo-Japanese war where Russia committed some serious errors thinking the Japanese would be walkovers. You clearly know nothing about the Manchurian wars in the late 1930's which were critical to the later European...