Is there any doubt that the final bombings of Japan saved many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American and Japanese lives. People who were there seemed to have realized this. Current day critics don’t know what they are talking about.
I have often noticed that modern Germans seem to carry unnecessary guilt for their country’s roll in WW2. I also notice that modern Japanese seem to carry little or no guilt. What is the reason for this? It may be cultural and it may be partly racsist in the sense that America is largely built on the European culture and Americans are not reluctant to blame others from the same culture. While many Japanese descendants are Americans, the European descendants among us are not willing to blame or judge actions of a different culture. Seems to me that Germans should lighten up on their burden a little, and Japanese should be more willing to own up to their responsibility in WW2 and to denounce it. Then we all move forward.
Hitler made so many movies of his atrocities that it is hard for people to be unaware that he was extremely evil. Stalin and Hirohito did not do that kind of documentation, thus many younger people have not seen pictures of their barbarism. Perhaps this is part of the reason that two generations do not know much about Japanese or Soviet war crimes.
Is there any doubt that the final bombings of Japan saved many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American and Japanese lives. People who were there seemed to have realized this. Current day critics don’t know what they are talking about.
Try this from from MSNBC on for size -- it' got me madder than hell.
Paul Tibbets, WWII commander of infamous B-29, requested no headstone/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21578185/