Just what is your point with this post?
Japan attacked us and we were at war, the commanders on the ground made decisions based upon the real enemy they were facing.
Validating Lindbergh's comments are no different than validating the armchair generals in the media or in the Democrat party today, some who have also 'traveled extensively' thoughout Iraq and Afghanistan.
Japan started the war and got what they deserved, America achieved what we were required to do.
We need that attitude today to allow our trusted military leaders to do their job and not worry about the 'experts' on the sidlines. Just because Lindbergh flew a plane over the Atlantic doesn't make him right. It was a war. People get killed. The whole thing is an atrocity.
Some people will do anything to find a speck of dirt in a mission of glory carried out by millions of Americans. I find it distasteful, disgusting...and ask myself "why"? Others should be questioning why YOU make this statement. My Dad fought in CBI theater, and at 86 he would still choke anybody who would defame the mission and achievements of those great men and women with statements like that.
Expecting a guarantee on a 'clean, perfect war' is just hiding some other agenda. Take it elsewhere, please.
So he didn't observe what he observed? Right?
He was there. I wasn't, and I seriously doubt you were.
Your agenda of 'Americans are bad, just not as bad' is disgusting.
My agenda is truth. Putting underwear on prisoners heads is one thing, but shooting an enemy soldier under a white flag is another. I always thought we were better than that, and I was surprised to learn that we were not.
My Dad fought in CBI theater, and at 86 he would still choke anybody who would defame the mission and achievements of those great men and women with statements like that.
CBI meant that he was likely early in the war. The issues Lindbergh witnessed were late, after the atrocities of the Japs were known and we were in a rush to get things over with.
Expecting a guarantee on a 'clean, perfect war' is just hiding some other agenda.
Hiding your eyes to the facts is no different than the Japanese of today being surprised that Chinese don't like them because of what happened in the war. Todays Japanese, and many Germans, have no idea of what their parents generation did. How is your attitude different?
It certainly appears that the Japanese then were today's muslim terrorists. They feign surrender, or anything else for that matter, to kill Americans.
I don't blame the Americans for not taking prisoners. Why should they take the chance and put their life on the line for some inhuman scum that wants to kill or torture them. They should be nice to the enemy so he can kill them? That's stupidity.
That was war with a cruel, unrelenting enemy. They didn't even want to surrender after both bombs were dropped. There's no choice about how to deal with them. As far as *eyewitnees* accounts.... well, I'd trust the opinion of a liberal anti-war activist back then just about as much as I would now. Only a liberal would consider that an accurate account because it's what they want to hear: Americans are bad.... booo.
Makes me sick.