Posted on 05/27/2016 9:12:32 AM PDT by Nachum
Whatever psychological structures we contain in our heads, that of FUNDAMENTALISM is the most pathological, whether religious fundamentalism or political fundamentalism or social fundamentalism or, in this case, Samurai cultural fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is a form of nostalgia for an imagined “ideal” past or some sort of purity of intention. But in every case, one of its main pillars is “the ends justify the means”.
Meanwhile we're supposed to feel guilty because of the atom bombs and because the Japanese-Americans were put in camps, not the Japanese for what they did.
I was aware of what I thought were the more egregious atrocities that Japan did during W.W.II and I find myself even more outraged when I read the list I just saw. I know that is just a small sliver of what happened and yet how could it not make you sick when you read it.
Yet our President feels we are the ones that were in the wrong. When you read atrocities like this you know in another time and era that Japan would have been put to the sword for this and their country wiped out. Yet we had mercy on them and rebuilt their country. I now know why the British that fought them hated them forever even the the great Lord Admiral Louis Mountbatten never forgot or forgave.
Savage covered this on his radio show yesterday.
i’ve always said, the islamofacists are amatuers compared to the japs of WWII...
Whatta POS. he should go live in Japan or NK if he spews that crap.
Lucky for the Japs the Occupation Forces had the will and character not to just go crazy and kill a bunch of them out of pure spite. The anger the GIs must have had after witnessing war at its worst had to be incredible
No one else would have tolerated the Japs like the USA did, post war and thereafter.
So everyone else, just STHU
Thanks to the Japanese, my 7th-grade English teacher was missing all his fingernails.
Because the USA treated the Japanese well after the war we got a strong and firm ally out of it rather than a population seething with resentment and desire for revenge. Same with Germany. Thje secret, though, is that both countries’ societies were destroyed to the point that they had no hope then were rebuilt as the Americans desired. We tried to do the same thing in other places later, especially in the ME but we did not destroy the old systems, we removed a few personalities then tried to “educate” the citizenry. Can’t be done. Their view of their place in the world, their cohesiveness as a society has to be destroyed before they can be changed. In the ME it would require a conquest so complete that the people would not resist a necessary forced conversion to Christianity i.e. the religion (nominally anyway) of the conquerors.
On the other hand ....Had, he is gone now...an Uncle, among 3, who served over there and one in particular who told about sneaking into Japanese camps for food at nite, listening to the cries of the captured also....
One of his sons married a Japanese gal and they had a couple of kids..Uncle Joe called the little guy his Samurai! He got ‘over it’ I guess in spite of what he went thru. Carlsons Raiders guy I believe.
I have (had) a bunch of Family that fought in the Pacific -they must have thought Navajos could swim - what has been attributed to those soldiers that are no longer with us, spoke of things that were beyond understanding.
My Dad served stateside during WW II and he always said the Japanese were never going to give up until we dropped the bomb. He said he believed our government when it said a million Americans would have died invading Japan, that’s why we had to drop the bomb. He said he could have been one of the casualties and would certainly have been sent to the Pacific if the war continued much longer.
So couldn’t the German civilians think (they actually were brainwashed into thinking they were being invaded) they should defend their country? Again, being rhetorical. I’m not defending. They wouldn’t care one wit what an American dictionary definition was.
the japs were sick b@stards....muslims did it in the name of allah, the japs did it in the name of the emperor and really have not paid much of a price for what they did...totally understandable why the Koreans and Chinese still hate them...
You used the word.
Liberal rewrite of history.
This one didn’t make the list:
A gruesome display at the newly-opened museum at Kyushu University explains how eight US POWs were taken to the centre’s medical school in Fukuoka after their plane was shot down over the skies of Japan in May 1945.
There, they were subjected to horrific medical experiments - as doctors dissected one soldier’s brain to see if epilepsy could be controlled by surgery, and removed parts of the livers of other prisoners as part of tests to see if they would survive.
Another soldier was injected with seawater, in an experiment to see if it could be used instead of sterile saline solution to help dehydration. All of the soldiers died from their ordeal.
The horrific episode has been described in previous books, one by a Japanese doctor who took part in the experiments, but the museum represents an official acknowledgement of the atrocity
When the incidents came to light during a discussion with professors in March, the university decided to include information about the experiments within their new museum.
About twelve airmen - the exact number is unclear - were aboard Captain Marvin Watkins’ B-29 when it took off from Guam on a bombing raid against an airfield in Fukuoka.
They all bailed out when their aircraft was rammed by a Japanese fighter.
One was killed when another Japanese fighter flew into his parachute. Local residents converged on the surviving airmen as they landed- one emptied his pistol at the crowd before shooting himself dead, another was stabbed to death by locals.
Of the remaining airmen Captain Watkins was taken for interrogation and survived the war, he is believed to have died in Virginia in 1989. The rest died during the horrific vivisection experiments.
Huh? Word?
I’ll bet there are many untold stories of Japanese atrocities but in today’s liberal world you’d be labeled a racist if you brought them up.
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