Posted on 12/06/2016 2:07:11 PM PST by ColdOne
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Pearl Harbor survivor marks 75 years since attack
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won't apologize for Japan's attack when he visits the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor later this month, the government spokesman said Tuesday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that "the purpose of the upcoming visit is to pay respects for the war dead and not to offer an apology."
Abe announced late Monday that he would have a summit meeting with President Barack Obama in Hawaii and visit Pearl Harbor. He will be the first Japanese leader to go to the site of the Japanese attack that propelled the United States into World War II.
The unexpected announcement came two days before the 75th anniversary of the attack and six months after Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima for victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of that city at the end of the same war.|
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Is he going to lay a wreath? And bow?
We want a BIG bow.
And we still pay for the defence of this d*cks country ?
Why the hell are we subsiding a country who hit us bad, perhaps the worst hit we’ve ever had after 9/11, and they refuse to acknowledge it was wrong!?
We damn near wiped Japan off the face of the earth. If he chooses not to apologize, I’m ok with that.
I am thinking Obama will apologize to them.
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We really need to treat this “”apologies for historic wrongs” fetish of the political Left as the childish nonsense it is.
Current people of Japan, Germany, the US, the UK etc have nothing to apologize for. They had no role in the national polices and the decision the political Leftist are demanding apologies for.
It merely an intellectually infantile debate tactics.
The left wants to argument that because of this irrelevant historic fact (i.e. segregation, slavery, “war crimes” etc) you must embrace our radical Leftist political agenda now.
No we don’t.
Ha!
Rotsa Ruck
I don’t need an apology. What’s done is done. Plus, we got them back many times over.
We did that AFTER they attacked us at Pearl Harbor... An apology is owed.
This recent trend of apologizing for historical events is silly. What does it accomplish? It is an empty gesture. Now if Abe committed seppuku at the event, that would impress me.
He can still bow.
And lay a wreath.
Do they want to be our ally or not.
Who cares. Japan can repress all it wants. We all know what happened, and so do they, even if they wont admit it.
Anyway, blockbuster announcement from Japan Softbank CE0 — about investing $50 billion in the US because of Trump — is the thing to focus on.
Abe didn’t bomb us. 99 to 100% of the decision makers regarding Pearl Harbor are dead. #Justsayin
Are you a child?
I wouldn’t expect an apology from Abe. Pansy Obama shouldn’t have given one.
Exactly right, MNJohnnie.
Given the last 8 years of presidential ass kissing from the Obama Apology Tour that has turned my stomach time and time again I’m okay with this. Never apologize except to family.
“We really need to treat this “”apologies for historic wrongs” fetish of the political Left as the childish nonsense it is.
Current people of Japan, Germany, the US, the UK etc have nothing to apologize for. They had no role in the national polices and the decision the political Leftist are demanding apologies for.
It merely an intellectually infantile debate tactics.
The left wants to argument that because of this irrelevant historic fact (i.e. segregation, slavery, “war crimes” etc) you must embrace our radical Leftist political agenda now.
No we don’t.”
Exactly. Besides, we nuked them (twice!), occupied their country and wrote their constitution. I’m pretty sure that those who survived at the time were really sorry!
Nothing really to apologize for. In August 1941, FDR cut them off from oil. He had probably moral reasons, but nonetheless, he cut them off from civilization’s lifeblood (the US was the Saudi Arabia of that time, big oil exporter).
His military said . . . the only place to get oil is Indonesia and for us to do that, the US Pacific Fleet must be neutralized.
So they attacked — and apparently only a snafu prevented them from delivering a declaration of war a few minutes before the attack.
They fought. They lost. Happens all the time. No need to apologize.
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