Jihadis should be the ones to blame if you want to include 'innocent' lives being lost. Blowing up car bombs to try and kill a few soldiers and instead killing hundreds of innocent men, women and children is not only cowardly but just poor results at best.
If you look at the ratios of military people killed vs. the general population, the math doesn't lie.

America has a military. They wear uniforms with names and rank. They are not running around dressed in 'civilian' clothing that the general population wears. This makes it painfully obvious who an American soldier 'is'. This certainly puts the U.S. at a disadvantage, when they are clearly identified as such and their enemies are n...

Jihadis should be the ones to blame if you want to include 'innocent' lives being lost. Blowing up car bombs to try and kill a few soldiers and instead killing hundreds of innocent men, women and children is not only cowardly but just poor results at best.
If you look at the ratios of military people killed vs. the general population, the math doesn't lie.

America has a military. They wear uniforms with names and rank. They are not running around dressed in 'civilian' clothing that the general population wears. This makes it painfully obvious who an American soldier 'is'. This certainly puts the U.S. at a disadvantage, when they are clearly identified as such and their enemies are not.

Enemies of America do not wear uniforms, unless you include 'ski masks' as the only uniform piece of clothing they all seem to agree on. These same 'soldiers' like to hide and co-exist among other civilians whenever they can as they know that they 'should' be safe from the U.S. (or other) forces.
Regardless of who you ask, it is not considered good judgment to launch RPG attacks against a target and then try to HIDE in a neighboring home when chopper pilots have infra-red video footage of the whole event. And now they level the home where the cowards just holed up in.
There are dozens of such videos on You Tube if you care to search for them that show the fate of such cowards as they try to run away only to bring death to the homes they sought as refuge. On a last note, if these fighters are all so proud and ready to die for their cause, why do they have to cover their faces with ski-masks? The same reason bank robbers wear them; they don't want anyone to see their face, as they are nothing but a criminal.

There was an interesting clip that many pro-war clipmarkers seized on that Japan did not invade the US because every household had a gun (NOTE: there seems to be some debate whether these words were actually ever said by the Japanese military man in question).

You mean this one? So far the only person I have found to dispute it is clipuser jklugman. The 'story' itself is in several places on the internet and is NOT disputed by anyone else for years, until now, by one person? I hardly call that discrediting the source. If it were in question don't you think that others would have noticed thi...

There was an interesting clip that many pro-war clipmarkers seized on that Japan did not invade the US because every household had a gun (NOTE: there seems to be some debate whether these words were actually ever said by the Japanese military man in question).

You mean this one? So far the only person I have found to dispute it is clipuser jklugman. The 'story' itself is in several places on the internet and is NOT disputed by anyone else for years, until now, by one person? I hardly call that discrediting the source. If it were in question don't you think that others would have noticed this many years ago? Just a thought.

In regards to U.S. citizens putting on uniforms to defend against invaders, they already did and it was in WWII. Even the average U.S. citizen understood the growing threat that Nazi Germany and Japan represented. They knew that esp. after Pearl Harbor that the war abroad had indeed, come to their shores.

Many stepped up the challenge and gave their lives so that we, as clipusers today, can do what we are doing right now. On another note: America has a volunteer army: There is no draft today. People serving do so on their own accord and will.

So far the only person I have found to dispute it is clipuser jklugman. The 'story' itself is in several places on the internet and is NOT disputed by anyone else for years, until now, by one person? I hardly call that discrediting the source. If it were in question don't you think that others would have noticed this many years ago? Just a thought.

The burden of proof is on the story's advocates to prove it is credible. You ask to much of your readers if you ask them to believe a story found on the Internet, even if it is found on various sites. That doesn't prove anything. One person could have made it up, and since it confirms the biases of gun enthusiasts, it is not su...

So far the only person I have found to dispute it is clipuser jklugman. The 'story' itself is in several places on the internet and is NOT disputed by anyone else for years, until now, by one person? I hardly call that discrediting the source. If it were in question don't you think that others would have noticed this many years ago? Just a thought.

The burden of proof is on the story's advocates to prove it is credible. You ask to much of your readers if you ask them to believe a story found on the Internet, even if it is found on various sites. That doesn't prove anything. One person could have made it up, and since it confirms the biases of gun enthusiasts, it is not surprising that it has been republished on the Internet a number of times. That in itself doesn't prove anything.

2 points real quick.

Napster my question is not whether Americans would enlist to serve their nation in the time of an invasion. That was already seen and witnessed. I am asking whether if the US had been invaded would the average joe farmer with his 30-06 or shotgun go out to meet the enemy in his civilian clothes. Which you know they would.

As for the, Japanese didn't invade because Americans had guns in their houses, I believe military strategists would see that as nonfeasible. For that matter it was a miracle they weren't spotted before attacking Pearl Harbor.

The following website shows what it took for the Allies in ships, manpower, and logistical support. I doubt invading America ...

2 points real quick.

Napster my question is not whether Americans would enlist to serve their nation in the time of an invasion. That was already seen and witnessed. I am asking whether if the US had been invaded would the average joe farmer with his 30-06 or shotgun go out to meet the enemy in his civilian clothes. Which you know they would.

As for the, Japanese didn't invade because Americans had guns in their houses, I believe military strategists would see that as nonfeasible. For that matter it was a miracle they weren't spotted before attacking Pearl Harbor.

The following website shows what it took for the Allies in ships, manpower, and logistical support. I doubt invading America was ever in their plans. Link

Consider the following facts.

1. The Overlord invasion required 4,600 ships to travel 100 miles under the air cover of 12,000 planes to land 156,000 troops on a French coastline 3,437 miles long. Over the next three weeks, the Allies brought in another 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies.

2. The unopposed landing at Anzio required 369 ships to land 100,000 men. Over the next four months, the Allies brought in another 14,000 men and 450,00 tons of supplies. Despite this, and the fact that the British Eighth Army and U.S. Fifth Corps were only 50 miles away on the other side of the Gustav line, the Sixth Corps remained helplessly trapped in its small beachhead.
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Consider the following facts.

1. The Overlord invasion required 4,600 ships to travel 100 miles under the air cover of 12,000 planes to land 156,000 troops on a French coastline 3,437 miles long. Over the next three weeks, the Allies brought in another 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies.

2. The unopposed landing at Anzio required 369 ships to land 100,000 men. Over the next four months, the Allies brought in another 14,000 men and 450,00 tons of supplies. Despite this, and the fact that the British Eighth Army and U.S. Fifth Corps were only 50 miles away on the other side of the Gustav line, the Sixth Corps remained helplessly trapped in its small beachhead.

3. In January 1942, prior to both Executive Order 9066 and the battle of Midway, the Imperial Japanese Navy possessed 717 carrier-borne planes and 176 ships, of which 15 were troop transports. The IJN's troop-bearing capacity was about 42,000 men. Reinforcement and resupply required a roundtrip transit of 11,000 miles to a coastline only 1,359 miles long.

None of this is hindsight, as the facts and logistics of the Pacific situation were very well known to American military strategists at the time. So much for the fears of invasion.