Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

you dont know what alternatives existed or how realistic any of them were. you are just some kid in the year 2007 playing war on a message board called "go fuck yourself" in between playing some 12yr Korean gamer Half Life or whatever the fuck.

you are not there. you are not in their shoes. you are not the president and military command and advisors weighing out all possible options, their potential effectiveness and the high cost of failure. you are not considering the issue from the standpoint of a military and administration that is fighting a world war in Europe and being attacked and invaded at home. you are not running or defending a nation. you are not worried about the continued cost of war. you are not weighing other potential threats. you can't possibly begin to put everything in its proper context because you're not there, you are not looking at a million unknowns regarding the future, you are not sitting there blind, with horrible intelligence trying to defend a nation from a fanatical enemy who had comitted more attrocities than the Nazis ever dreamed of. you are not looking at the financial burden on the economy and the costs of supporting the effort in Europe. you are not an administration that is totally alone in the world, trying to end a war they didn't start. this is what is just silly. you are just some guy in the year 2007 taking a few tid bits out of wikipedia.com to try and over simplify one of the worlds biggest catastrophes and 10's of millions dead.

its so juvenile to say "if they would have just done XYZ, things would have been better" because above all other things, that simply can't be proven.