saintmichaeldefendthem
Gold Member
I just praised your analogy!Japan was eventually nuked. I'm not refuting your analogy, I'm saying it's a great analogy and we should drop the same rice cooker on ISIS to complete the analogy.Methinks you are thinking of the banzai charges. The 'Divine Wind' attacks were at the close of the war.There is a bit of a historical problem with your argument. The kamikazes struck at the start of the war with us and won that day quite soundly.
Yup. There were a few isolated incidents of a badly damaged zero that couldn't make it back to base crashing into another plane. With anecdotal examples of US and British pilots doing the exact same thing.
But Kamikaze attacks where perfectly operational zeros were loaded with explosives so they could be crashed by pilots into allied ships? The return of the 'divine wind'? That propaganda didn't even start until 1944. With the kamikaze attacks not starting until October of 44.
They were a desperation move by a force that was losing catastrophically all while having their infrastructure to wage war destroyed systematically.
Just like ISIS is today.
And what of US allies Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Israel share borders or are in the immediate proximity of ISIS controlled territories. Japan was geographically isolated from our allies. We'd be nuking our allies or at the very least, giving them a couples of orders of magnitude increase in birth defects and cancer rates, all while irradiating their farmland and water supply.
And of course, the vaporizing of tens of thousands of women and children would be a superb recruiting tool for extremists. Plus, violating the nuclear taboo would cost us dearly in soft power around the world and in credibility for our allies. With war crimes tribunals being a very real possibility......as many of those international laws were created *in response* to the last time we used nuclear weapons.
Or....we can simply continue to wage conventional warfare and beat ISIS without any of those horrendous costs to ourselves and our allies.
When your opponent is engaged in frantic desperation ploys......your strategy is winning. Just keep it up, and you win.
Japan was close to China, our ally.