October 14, 200618 yr But isn't it true that in WW2 most soldiers were conscripted and had no choice,unlike todays professional army. I had relatives who fought in WW2 but they did not join willingly. So I disagree with your analogy of this. Todays army in Iraq willingly joined so its different today. I'm not sure how it was for the Americans in WW2 though (it was mainly US personnel in the South Pacific) - the UK had to conscript people because we really were under immediate threat of invasion, the Japanese would never be able to actually invade the US, regardless of Pearl Harbour. The US had a much larger number of troops and willing volunteers than UK, I'm not really sure whether they had to resort to conscription or not tbh, although they certainly did in Vietnam... But regardless of whether conscripted or not, they still have the guns and the training to actually defend themselves at least, the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed from 20-odd thousand feet away had neither.....
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