 |
|
| Don't have an account yet? You can create one. As a registered user you have some advantages like theme manager, comments configuration and post comments with your name. |
|
|
|
| |
|
| | The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content. |
|
|
|
No Comments Allowed for Anonymous, please register |
|
Re: The Atomic Bomb: A Different Perspective (Score: 1)
by GeoffDB on Sunday, August 07 @ 18:41:37 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Don't start the name-calling. All I did was to apply reasoning. It is undisputed what carnage Japanese infantrymen perpetrated against Chinese and other Asians. In fact, Iris Chang's book has a re-print of a leaflet that was passed out to Japanese citizens in Japan while the Nanking massacre was carried out.
Japanese people were led to believe that Japanese troops were only there to help Chinese. Of course, that was a lie. The brutal tactics used by Japanese troops were not an accident. It was cruel, total debauchery.
I'm simply trying to draw a distinction between Japanese citizens and troops.
Let me put it this way, slavery was allowed to be carried out over hundreds of years in the US because it was government policy and supported by the citizenry.
The occupation of Nanking and other Asian countries was part of Japanese foreign policy, but the brutal tactics were not supported by the citizenry. Even Iris Chang's book does not indict the Japanese citizenry or their Emperor at the time.
If you do not believe me, read "The Rape of Nanking." I'm not making this up. Iris Chang goes into what must have been the mind-set of Japanese troops. Read it for yourself.
I would think that it would be in Japan's best interest to offer an unequivocal apology to China and other Asian countries if it has not done so.
I'm still waiting for a official apology from my very own US government for slavery, unequal education and economic disenfranchisement of black people. When the US Senate recently passed a resoluton offering an apology for not acting on anti-lynching legislation, several conservative GOP senators refused to sign it. Apparently, they felt that an apology was not in order.
I'm the last person who is going to even remotely try to excuse brutality. |
| Parent |
|
|
