[rahbert]

What a bizarre, inhumane and irrational statement.

Read Iris Chang's book about the Rape of Nanking and
see if theres a shred of decency in your heart.

[tallhappy]

Read Iris Chang's book...

I bought and read Iris' book the first day it came out.

I'd earlier read her Thread of the Silkworm.

[Phsstpok]

Well, I'm glad I read the responses to tallhappy's grotesque post. Everything I would have said, particularly your recommendation of Iris Chang's book, were said before me, and probably better.

If the Japanese had maintained control of China (a dubious proposition) the victims of Chairman Mao would not have died at this hands, true. But they and an order of magnitude of others would have died in no less horrific circumstances, and probably worse.

People like tallhappy ignore the law of unintended consequences at their peril.

I do think, however, that we are missing an important lesson that we must learn from the situation between China and Japan. The wartime people of Japan were on a religious crusade, a jihad, to conquer what they were taught was rightly theirs by divine right. Though the vast majority of Japanese do not accept that notion anymore the victims of their predecessors still thirst for revenge. If we succeed in defeating the islamofascists and even turn them into productive and successful friends, will their victims around the world be so forgiving?