If Americans destroyed Manila during WW2, why didn't the Filipinos do the same to an American city?

[justansweritplz]

A lot of Filipinos on YouTube blame the US for why Manila turned from this:



To this:



A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?

[ice15]

A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?

I'm sure more than half of Filipinos based in the Philippines would love to live at LA/San Fo if given the chance...

[StockEngine]

A lot of Filipinos on YouTube blame the US for why Manila turned from this:



To this:



A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?

parang za relationship lng yan. move-on na lng

[Monseratto]

Hmmm the area destroyed was from Sta Cruz to Sta Ana... which isn't really "big" as to the size of Metro Manila now. Binondo, San Miguel and Sampaloc was spared. Many old Pre-war structure still remain in Manila.

[oj88]

Two things:

1. It's not 1899 and we're not at war with the US, and
2. You do know that Japan was the occupying force in Manila during WW2, right? The US was (and still is) our ally during that time. Manila was destroyed as a result of Filipino-American joint forces weeding out Japanese soldiers still hiding in the city. Japan has since then, provided war reparations. Whether it's enough or not, is probably subject to another debate

[Athrunzala]

Don't blame the Americans, blame the Japanese.

During the opening of the war, the Americans decided to make Manila an "open city" so as to spare Manila of destruction and make Bataan do all the fighting. On the other hand, in the final months of the war, the Japanese decided to make Manila the battleground instead of just leaving it open.

[yebo]

Ilang beses ka na bang na-deny sa US visa application mo at galit ka kay uncle Sam?

No seriously, even if assuming we have the capability to wage war with the US (like as if we have 10,000 nuclear warheads stashed in camp aguinaldo), why destroy an ally's city? Would the effort be put to better use by improving what we have instead?

Buti sana kung Beijing pa yan ok lang, we do have an issue with them.

[kisshmet]

A lot of Filipinos on YouTube blame the US for why Manila turned from this:



To this:



A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?

The japs stubbornly made a last stand in intramuros and outlying areas in manila which led to the destruction of manila.

The bushido code calls for embracing death rather than surrender because its shameful.

The Americans funded the rebuilding not just of Europe but also the philippines and japan after the end of world war2

Your premise about the destruction of manila is utterly misguided. It exemplify your poor knowledge of history

After world war2 america became a super power and an industrial behemoth. Japanese empire knelt to Americas industrial might then (70 years ago), do you honestly believe a weak nation such as the philippines can muster enough weapons to do the same (destroy an American city)?

You must be hallucinating dude

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[yebo]

The TS does believe that china will be good for the philippines. Shows where he is coming from, no?


All about CHINA "land of the red dragon"

[justansweritplz]

Hmmm the area destroyed was from Sta Cruz to Sta Ana... which isn't really "big"

Isn't really big?







Look at what they did to your beautiful bridge:





That not big enough for you?

And if your excuse is "well, they are just buildings", think about the 100,000 of your countrymen who died because of them. If they were not in your country, Japan would have spared you. Think about that for a moment.

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I'm sure more than half of Filipinos based in the Philippines would love to live at LA/San Fo if given the chance...

They wouldn't if they knew how horrible the place was.

[justansweritplz]

You do know that Japan was the occupying force in Manila during WW2, right

If the yankee imperialist weren't in your country, your people would have been spared, ever thought of that? And not only the ones who were affected during WW2 but the ones who were affected with your war for independence with the US. Did you forget:



That is why I can't wait for the US to get its comeuppance and you should too!

[justansweritplz]

Don't blame the Americans, blame the Japanese.

And blame the yankees too, of course! I read that your dear Manuel Quezon urged the imperialist to give you independence before WW2 in the hopes that Japan would spare your country, did the yankee imperialist listen? And now look at what has happened.

[Jun aka Pekto]

MacArthur could have fought and delayed the Japanese at Manila in 1942. But, he chose to make Manila an open city and spare it the destruction, retreating to Bataan instead.

When the US was poised to retake Manila, Yamashita ordered his troops to abandon Manila as well and regroup elsewhere. But, the Japanese marines refused and chose Manila as the place to make their last stand instead.

What was the alternative? Leave Manila in Japanese hands?

Regardless whether the PH was in US hands or not, the Japanese would have taken the PH because it was in an ideal position to protect Japanese supply routes from and to Southeast Asia. Look at a map of the region.

[justansweritplz]

Ilang beses ka na bang na-deny sa US visa application mo at galit ka kay uncle Sam?

I would never choose to live in such a horrible rotting country even if that means death for me! The only way I would choose to live there is when the vermin there have been exterminated and the poor nations, who have been hurt by them, have divided the remains of their country.

Buti sana kung Beijing pa yan ok lang, we do have an issue with them.

Why? Did the Chinese do this to you:



Or this:



Or this:



Or this:



Or perhaps this:



Come back to me when they do.

[justansweritplz]

The TS does believe that china will be good for the philippines.

What does China have to do with any of this? Is it because of your current argument with China?

Has China colonized you?

Has China murdered hundreds of thousands if not millions of you?

Did China promise you independence only to take it away?

Does China have a military base in your country?

Have Chinese soldiers raped or murdered a homo***ual by drowning him in the toilet?

Has China ever done any of these to you? Perhaps you should learn your history before you comment back to me.

[justansweritplz]

The Americans funded the rebuilding not just of Europe but also the philippines and japan after the end of world war2

Is that so? Did the Philippines look the same after they rebuilt you?

And by the way, many Europeans consider the Marshall plan a mistake.

[oj88]

Those pictures are from the Phil-Am war of 1899 to 1902. None of those people are even alive now. Jeez, my dad wouldn't be born for another 40-something years.

Would you blame the current generation Germans for what Hitler did in WW2?

Yes, the Philippines got a rotten deal overall, but you gotta play the cards you're dealt with.


I think the mods should lock this thread. Outlook not so good.

[kagalingan]

mukhang aral sa history si justanswerplz.

Si intelligencia of the philippine nilelecturan din kami about the west na barbaric nation.

Meron sinabi sa amin to research about al-andalus andalucia hindi ko pa chinecheck.

And china is never the enemy.

he is the one who told us to read about kishore mahbubani, the dean of lee kuan yew of school of public policy.

[chronicle]

Each time again, there's an anti-american post here in tsikot. Different usernames same person maybe?

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[MR_BIG18]

Is that so? Did the Philippines look the same after they rebuilt you?

And by the way, many Europeans consider the Marshall plan a mistake.

They rebuilt me but mine but i went there also becoz of sinatra, why not? maybe its yours, i see you, but im not here..

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