{"id":2423,"date":"2015-01-25T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2015-01-25T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T22:23:49","slug":"a-history-lesson-or-that-is-why-we-have-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"A history Lesson or THAT is why we have Manga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0I haven’t been getting out much.\u00a0 I have been drawing with Band of brothers on in the background.\u00a0 If you are an American who has any access to t.v. or films you have seen so damn many stories about\u00a0 D-Day you’re about ready to build a time machine and go back and shoot Hitler as a baby just so they will stop telling more.\u00a0 The war in Europe has been told and retold, but only a tiny fraction of WWII stories are about the war in the pacific.\u00a0 It is an after thought.\u00a0 There are two reasons for this.\u00a0 One- it was gory and horrific on a scale that even the war in Europe was not. and TWO- it raises a lot of questions.\u00a0 Uncomfortable questions.\u00a0 Questions that conspiracy theorists love to ask, like why in the blue hell was the war in the pacific a secondary priority when Japan was the country who attacked us in the first place?<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t have the answers, and the questions won’t be answered, but the war in the pacific was a GD amazing example of good old American ingenuity and ” oh it’s on? okay…get ready to die by any means at our disposal.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter Douglas MacArthur, a veteran of WWI who during a smoke filled attack on a hill\u00a0 was the ONLY man left alive.\u00a0 The ONLY MAN LEFT.\u00a0 That should clue you into the badass\/destiny filled life of the good general.<\/span><\/p>\n

MacArthur lived on the island of manilla when Japan decided any floating hunk of mud between Japan and California belonged to them.\u00a0 They blew the crap out of his Island home…and sealed their fate.\u00a0 MacArthur was put in charge of the pacific forces…to a certain extent.\u00a0 The U.S. decided Hitler was the main threat to humanity and so Mac was given a pittance as far as troops and supplies. No ships to speak of, no aircraft carriers, just a small amount of troops and a ” we’ll take this more seriously after Hitler is dead.”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did I mention Manilla?\u00a0 Mac took it seriously right from jump street.\u00a0 And if blowing the crap out of his home wasn’t enough, they also captured a good number of U.S. troops and marched them to death ( see batten death march)\u00a0 Hitler needed to die, no doubt about it, but the Japans maniac Tojo was no f’n good either.\u00a0 He slaughtered Chinese civilians by the millions and used bulldozers to plow over them alive or dead.\u00a0 His forces were brutal and in some cases psychotic in their treatment of captured troops and civilians all across the pacific ocean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Did you see the last season of The Walking Dead?\u00a0 Did you see the part where Bob had his leg cut of and eaten? well that wasn’t some ingenious Hollywood creation. that was what the Japanese where doing to captured U.S. pilots.\u00a0 They would keep their troops fed by eating U.S. solders piece by piece so they wouldn’t have to worry about the meat going bad in the pacific climate.\u00a0 Hitler was a crazy A-hole but here are no accounts of Nazi cannibalism as\u00a0 policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mac was given no aircraft carriers.\u00a0 So…how do you get from Hawaii to Japan and screw a colt 45 into Tojo’s ear with no ships?\u00a0 You “island hop”.\u00a0 This was the term used for Mac attacking , and conquering an Island, building a GD air airport, then flying troops to the next island, conquering it and building a GD airport and flying to the next island..rinse , repeat ALL THE WAY TO F*CKING JAPAN.\u00a0\u00a0 This guy was going to see Tojo n his knees if he had to swim there with a knife in his mouth.\u00a0 While general Eisenhower’s “strategy” for D-Day was to, more or, less flood the beaches with more troops than the Nazi’s had bullets,\u00a0 Mac’s plan was an actual plan.\u00a0 He learned the enemy , learned the tactics, learned the obstacles and learned how to overcome them.\u00a0 Eisenhower was a good general and got then job done.\u00a0 But MacArthur was a genius.\u00a0 Ike had the advantage and used it properly.\u00a0 MacArthur was at a disadvantage and overcame it.\u00a0\u00a0 He was 75% of the way to Japan with no help by the time Ike, with the bulk of the backing of the U.S.A.’s resources , along with England AND Russia managed to topple Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every Island was a little different in geography and layout, every Island was defended differently, and on every island Japan had the advantage. MacArthur had no F*cks to give.\u00a0 Every single Island that was between Hawaii and Japan was going to have a U.S flag planted\u00a0 on it and if you didn’t like it you were going to be in the business end of a flame thrower.\u00a0 You may have heard his quote “I shall return” after being ordered to leave his troops by the president as they were being overrun early in the war.\u00a0 Well he did return, and he brought a while lot of pissed off G.I.’s with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On august 1945 Japan surrendered after the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs on it, Much has been made since them about whether or not the U.s. went to far.\u00a0 The fact that we had to drop a second bomb should be all the intel you need to sleep comfortably in knowing we did had needed to be done..\u00a0 We evaporated one of their cities and their a-hole leader STILL wouldn’t give up the ghost until we dropped a second bomb.
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So…and here is where MacArthur’s genius come to the forefront of human history. Japan surrenders to Mac.\u00a0 Mac then parades the “emperor” thought the streets.\u00a0 The emperor was thought to be some god like entity, much like the turd who currently rules North Korea.\u00a0 He marched him through the streets so the citizens could see that he was not a God and that they committed horrific acts and where bombed into the stone age because they believed the insane ramblings of\u00a0 a mere mortal.\u00a0 Rather than have the guy killed, he made him hang around and admit he wasn’t a god and they should listen to whatever the scary American tells them to.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When someone asks you if you’re a god…you say yes!”\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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unless that person is MacArthur because he’ll dress you like his butler…and then make you his butler.<\/span><\/p>\n

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and then make you face your countrymen dressed as his butler and explain that you got them all bombed into the stone age because you believe too much of your own bullshit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quite a rude awakening.\u00a0 Mac then hung around and oversaw the creation of a new Japanese democracy.\u00a0\u00a0 He stuck around and made sure the Japanese people would\u00a0 get with the program, Elect leaders based on qualifications and not birthright or divine intervention.\u00a0 The parading of Tojo through town was a jarring enough\u00a0 insight that they gave democracy are honest try, and Japan…a country that had been ruled by one “god” after another and been an overall pain in the balls to humanity since we discovered fire, took to capitalism on and gave us video games, cheap electronics and weird cartoons and has been more or less a benefit to mankind ever since. and while Akira and tentacle porn reminds us all that Japan’s history is rooted in despicable horrific sh*t , you can thank MacArthur that they use that ingrained horror\u00a0 to make a few bucks instead of using it to bulldoze innocent women and children and spear babies with bayonets.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The future is fluid of course, ISIS just recently decided to grab some Japanese people to behead. One can only wonder who long before the Pokemon plastic crap factories start churning out something more nefarious for export in response. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0I haven’t been getting out much.\u00a0 I have been drawing with Band of brothers on in the background.\u00a0 If you are an American who has any access to t.v. or films you have seen so damn many stories about\u00a0 D-Day you’re about ready to build a time machine and go\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}