It sounds like our leaders did not see that japan wanted to surrender the war, but NOT want to surrender their culture.

japan stated they wanted to end the war as soon as possible. we ignored that when we heard their refusal to abdicate their personal god and cultural leader.

sounds like a lot of live's could have been saved on both sides if we looked at the enemy's culture.

i wonder if we're making a similar mistake with islam. if we understood islam better, we probably could reduce the unified hate from muslims.
we could isolate the extremists from the rest of the muslim world. right now, it feels like we are slowly unifying the muslim world in opposition to america.

it's weird that we have so much armaments, but we have so very few translators.

pax

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