[quote=John Ogre]
Only a stupid, probably ex-military, nationalist stooge would think that the USA didn’t cause Pearl Harbor. Everyone who died there has no one to blame but our government. Good riddance.
The fire bombing of Tokyo and dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the very definition of a holocaust.[/quote]
Ogre: A well-balanced and thoughtful response. Civil, as well. I’ll ignore the blatantly one-sided aspect, as well as the complete elision when it comes to the actual facts of Japanese militarism leading up to the war. You present half the argument and then treat that as revealed truth. Combine that with the revisionist approach and you have a nice piece of propaganda, leavened with a healthy dollop of ad hominem.
You don’t think that Japan (or Germany, for that matter) would have used atomic weapons if they possessed them? Um, yeah, pretty sure they would have, especially since Germany was hard at work on a similar program. The fire bombing of Tokyo was indeed horrific, but the Japanese people fervently supported the war and believed that their emperor was a god and his judgment divinely inspired. The military and civilian populace were fully prepared to fight to the bitter end and were willing to sacrifice themselves for “god” and country. No excuses, but this was a war without mercy and Japanese conduct during the war was also appalling.
Do a little research on Unit 731 and the number of deaths caused by Japanese “research” and the use of germ and bio-weapons (anywhere from 200,000 to nearly 600,000). Look at Japanese conduct towards civilians and non-combatants in China, Manchukuo, Korea and Indo-china and then peddle the nonsense that the Japanese were “bullied” into it.
And, no comment on the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”? I’m sure that Western actions “drove” them to this as well?
Spare me the tendentious and mendacious moralizing. There are two sides to every story and facts are facts.
