John Rabe, the top-ranking Nazi liaison to the Imperial Japanese government, was so appalled by what he saw that he personally wrote a letter to Adolf F*CKING for intervention on HUMANITARIAN grounds.
Learn some more history before you completely discredit yourself.
Wow! I make an innocent comment and grey_whiskers, rmlew, and Code Toad come out of the jungle like jackals on the attack. I simply asked Venturer what corner the Japanese were backed into prior to WWII and Pilsner answered about the embargo on supplies to which I replied that perhaps there are similarities between that and the sanctions against Iran presently. Then Pilsner and I get blasted and I am called ignorant of history. How did Venturer escape your wrath? He started the whole mess. :-)
You guys apparently overlooked my post #14 in your eagerness to label me as a dunce. grey_whiskers, since I have admired and complemented you on your posts on other threads I expected more from you. I guess I am as ignorant of people as I am history.
Correction: The book I mentioned is authored by Thomas Fleming, not Thomas Freeman. There is another good book about that era titled Brute. It is about a remarkable man named Victor Krulak who was only 5’4”, 120 pounds, and he would have become the Commandant of the Marine Corps but for LBJ’s ego and vindictiveness. His third son, Charles C. Krulak did become Commandant, 1995-1999, his first son, Victor, Jr., was a Commander and Chaplain in the Navy and his other son was a Lt. Col. and Medic/Chaplain in the Marine Corps.
Although I was a child I lived through WWII and had several family members in the Army and Marines. News of and interest in the war was thick around my house. I do know a little bit about that time despite your opinions.