Posted on 04/28/2015 4:21:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Those corporations submitted to blackmail. Today’s Japanese owes us nothing. If we wanted something we should have demanded it when they surrendered.
An apology is so easy! I’m sorry. There I said it. If it would help calm an entire continent and possibly pave the way away from possible war and to peace isn’t it worth it?
The guy really was a Nazi but he clearly did not understand what they really were.
He wrote to Hitler several times to tell him what the Japanese were doing but of course got no help. Even if Hitler had been inclined to help, he could not have for political reasons.
No it is not. Appeasement is never worth it. And it is not easy getting people who had nothing to do with the wrong doing apologize to people who were not wronged. What is easy about that? By your standard there is a whole lot of apologizing that needs to occur. Plus once it starts the sense of grievance and entitlement will swell leading to even further problems.
we’re not going to agree so i’ll politely leave it at that :)
You’d think nation leaders would have more important work to do then point fingers on the past.....it’s just nonsense!
well then there’s a lot of checks going out by the German and Austrian govt and a lot of German companies that would need to be cancelled.
Can’t have it one way for one country and one way for another.
I decided we should have our own pro-defense rally, and organized one in down-town Dayton on Pearl Harbor Day. It turned out very well with a lot of veterans groups showing up, as well as other people.
A reporter from a local TV station interviewed me during the rally, and asked about Japan. I replied that we weren't holding an ant-Japan rally. It was a pro-defense rally. Most of the people in Japan weren't yet born on December 7, 1941, and bore no responsibility for it. We shouldn't keep making them bear the burden of what was done by people long dead.
I think the same should be true for other nations that were attacked by Japan. There ought to be a statute of limitations. What was done was horrible, but Japan paid a high price before it was all over. It's time to give it a rest.
It’s only “time to give it a rest” when the aggressor nation actually learned from its mistakes.
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