booru-bait, but good booru-bait
What is that?
You've been watching too much Startrek, Prime directive has always been the shows stupidest concept, especially the way it was done on the show.
Are you aware of the history of America's interventions in the Middle-East, and the consequences for both the civilians there and the American soldiers who fought those wars?
If you are talking Iraq, alot of dumb things were done, including not supporting people who would support the US.
Did you know that there was a group called Sons of Iraq that US empowered to help stabilize the country. It was successful. This after the US stupidly dismissed most of Iraqs army, leaving countless men jobless and left with nothing but being hired as insurgents to support themselves. And allowing the country to loot itself silly, destroying the economy and infrastructure. A general finally got smart and left Iraq to the Iraqies, supporting the Iraqs that would support US and Iraq as a whole. But a prejudicial idiot was left in charge of Iraq. And Obama idiotically just pulled out completely, the Sons of Iraq had all their support withdrawn, including pay, they were targeted and killed too. Translators who helped the US, people who informed for the US, all sorts of people were left high and dry to die, and not provided shelter, because of their country of origin, because of the place on the map they were born on. And people have learned not to trust the US to provide support when it's needed.
Now let's compare to the comic, they have the Rose knights, and their military, powerless to intervene in the mistreatment and slaughter of their own people. They have political leaders, being rounded up and executed! The longer Japan waits, the less there is to do. They are sitting around and watching the infrastructure they need to resolve the situation peacefully, being destroyed! Just like the US in Iraq. Not intervening when it's needed, not providing the support when its needed. They might as well just give up and go home at this rate, and leave the idiotic evil dictator to destroy the country because Japans leaders are too idiotic and spinless to get anything done, at least in the comic.
And in the comic, a japanese citizen was rescued, and even warranted a warning shot. But a good peace supporting senator and a little girl who supports Japan and has political importance can't warrant being allowed sanctuary standing on the border of safety and at deaths door too, much-less anyone else. Japan being shown doing many of the stupid things that is the reason Iraq is still a mess. Well the US was never that stupid as to deny sanctuary to an important political child standing at the border of their compound. Yes they eventually caved, but they shouldn't need something like someone being a fiancee etc to do so, should have been a no brainer. "put everything at risk for" says one of the diplomats chapter 64 page 11 put what at risk? The only risk at this point of the story comes from inaction. What can they do if they continue to not act, that saving them puts in jeopardy? And even then, it's just the girl that is saved, and not the senator it seems. Personally I think most of this part of the story was to get that guy engaged to the little girl and treat it like the morale high ground.
And you want to compare US military intervention. Surely you are aware that Japan was formally an evil power bent on world domination, and formally the US military occupied Japan rather completely. And now look at it.
Iraq is a country with arbitrary borders (lines on a map that might as well been drawn by a drunk child) that encompasses some very different cultures and people. Muslim faith, which is plentiful in Iraq, is by nature militant and dictator like, completely intolerant of anyone outside of their particular version of faiths, (and multiple versions of the faith causing lots of conflict) especially the Islam types found in places like that. They have a outside force convincing the people that their faith should be so intolerant.
Many conflicts are because of badly drawn national lines, and the sometimes just as asinine concept of national sovereignty.
The empire inside the comic is very different. There is no insurgent culture, no muslim like faith that advocates dictatorship, slavery, death, ignorance. The empires people are not fractured anything like Iraq was even before the US entered. It was the dictatorship that kept Iraq together. The people of the empire in the comic. like Japan alot. Also, there is no road-side bombing technology. If Japan were to quickly sweep away these sweepers AKA secret police and their evil idiotic leader quickly before all the good political leaders are killed, there would be no reason to occupy at all.
Even if all they have are just old bolt-action rifles,
When did they have even that? I miss a chapter where they were armed with bolt action rifles? I haven't seen any of the sweepers carry such weaponry.
If anything, I think Japan is still too reckless. A diplomatic station was bombed out of nothing but emotion-driven vengeance. How's it those Imperial guards' fault that Zorzal took a Japanese woman as a sex slave?
I don't recall it being a diplomatic station that was bombed, I think you got that wrong. It was a warning shot, an unoccupied building. And that warning shot might be the reason Zorzal is still allowing Japan and his sister and her immediate people, to still have their own bit of safety.
The most interesting plot development I've seen in this manga thus far is Tyuule's budding feelings for that Japanese "chef". I expected more intrigue, more exploration of topics like the horrors of asymmetrical warfare
There has been no asymmetrical warfare so far. So no forum to explore horrors of something that has yet to be. Sure, evil dictator has used some evil underhanded tactics to gain control with his secret police. But it's not warefare if Japan isn't fighting back.
and PTSD.
Because of the blood bath when Japan first arrived? Otherwise no reason for any of these soldiers to have PTSD. Besides, those soldiers were never even in the smallest bit of danger, and were able to obliterate these people from so far, they didn't need to see it up close. PTSD is usually an accumulation of stress, and not caused solely by one incident. Also, only a small amount of soldiers even needed to participate in that massacre.
Things like cultural contamination
Usually mostly a nonsensical concept, belonging in the same category as human racial purity. The proper phrase here to use is cultural exchange, which has been going on since there has been humans. It's only contamination when the culture being exchanged is vile, like conservative arab style muslim faith. When you have people in the US mutilating their little girls genitals because that is what their culture did from the african etc countries they came from, that is "cultural contamination" if anything is, and should be stomped out. Otherwise, no such thing.
and tragic misunderstandings. How come no angry native has come yelling at the PX store because their baby died after they gave it twenty sleeping pills because it was crying?
While logically something like that is bound to happen. Why do we need to see that any more than to see the comic cover toiletry etc.? Yes, shit happens. But why include it in the comic?
This comic is a tragic reminder of how excessive valuing of arbitrary lines on a map can get out of hand. Like that stupid meaningless border with the grass on the compound, in real life, because of arbitrary lines on a map, many things have been done or not done that have caused countless people to suffer.
Edited by truepurple, 01 June 2017 - 07:00 AM.