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

**justansweritplz** · July 24th, 2019 06:25 PM

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** · July 24th, 2019 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by justansweritplz

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** · July 24th, 2019 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by 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?

parang za relationship lng yan. move-on na lng

**oj88** · July 24th, 2019 07:42 PM

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** · July 24th, 2019 08:09 PM

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** · July 24th, 2019 09:24 PM

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.

**justansweritplz** · July 24th, 2019 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by yebo

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.

Originally Posted by yebo

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 perhaps this:

Come back to me when they do.

**justansweritplz** · July 24th, 2019 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by Athrunzala

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.

**justansweritplz** · July 24th, 2019 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by oj88

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!

**yebo** · July 25th, 2019 01:50 AM

Originally Posted by justansweritplz

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!

So how do you explain the japanese occupation of Korea and China? Do you blame that on the yankees, too?

Japan invaded the Philippines becase we were on the way between japan and borneo (specifically, Balikpapan), which was the oil producing region of south east asia at the time.