History on the WOT

I've been watching a lot of documentary and TV things on WWII at work and it's totally unbelievable all the stuff that went on during that time around the world. Crazy shit.

Japan was preparing for an American invasion of their country and started training EVERYONE - women and children to fight with bamboo sticks and stab American soldiers as they invaded. American warplanners estimated 1 million men would die if we invaded Japan. Can you imagine that?

The Japanese were told the Americans were going to torture them and mutilate and kill them and their only hope was to fight to the last man.

In Germany after the war ended, the people were so hungry and starving, women would cook wallpaper for their family to eat because the glue had nutrients. This wasn't just the poor in Germany - this was the entire country. The entire country was rubble. In fact, the entire continent of Europe was basically rubble. A totally surreal landscape.

Japan tried to get Russia to intervene on their behalf to get an armistice, but Russia wouldn't intercede with America, who wanted nothing less than an unconditional surrender.

The reason the allies insisted on unconditional surrender by Germany and Japan was because WWI ended with an armistice and essentially set the stage for WWII.

Anyways...getting off topic. Strategy pages has a good article about how history will treat the war on terror and that all we're getting today are varying politicized accounts about what's going on.