Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | November 3, 2007 | NIGEL BLUNDELL

[sneakers]

No kidding!! My son is serving aboard the destroyer USS Lassen (DDG82) as part of the Kitty Hawk strike group. I heard the Hawk will be decommissioned next year. Will your son be reassigned or will he stay with her. I heard decommissioning is a long process.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"You need a dose of history, with a chaser of common sense."

You need to brush up on your manners.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Ditto.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yeah, one of my old high school buds' grandfather spent World War II in a Jap prison camp. He used to talk about how the guards used to take bets on who could split Allied POWs (chosen at random) right down the middle with their samurai swords.

Nowadays, whenever the Japs publicly lament the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nukings, I just shake my head at their utter hypocrisy.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"they would prefer to ignore it, and hope it goes away, not face it and accept the disgrace of those atrocities."

Same with a lot of Americans over slavery and not upholding agreements with Amerindian tribes.

And for both Americans and the Japanese, an unwillingness to acknowledge the unflattering parts of your histories just increases the chances that you'll repeat those atrocities you have swept under the rug.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Did she have little motorcycles painted on the side. She could’a been an Ace.

[Lewite]

I have always thought we should not have allowed Japan to surrender so easily. We should have bombed them for another six months to a year. They wanted to live like animals and we should have reduced them to that state. We were to soft to our enemies. Our leaders were only wanting to make a lot of money off the war.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The term Japs is derogatory, though not on quite the same level as the n word.

While personally disagree with its usage, will not get into an uproar over people harboring a huge grudge against the Japanese (the paranoid part is suspicious that they do so because it's an 'acceptable' way to be racist; improbable, but just a hunch). Hence comment 133, where JAPS was replaced with Japs instead of Japanese. Referring to them as animals was stupid, and capitalizing Japs was confrontational, but, while offensive, Japs is the most acceptable while keeping his disgust with the Japanese clear in his post.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This thread is three months late.

These usually show up on FR in August.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Very un-Christian attitude.

The atomic bombs were to win the war fast, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have been bombed. The bombing shouldn't have been to get payback or to punish the entire Japanese nation, including babies and young children. They should have been bombed until they surrendered--which is basically what happened. After surrender, the bombing should have ceased, and individual Japanese could be prosecuted.

Motive. Motive.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You should have been pinged to comment 148.

[AmericanInTokyo]

My #152 basically said the “N” word is totally banished on FR, but the “J” word (referring likewise in the same insulting manner to Japanese) is in fact allowed.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Agree with you that Japs shouldn't be used, but wouldn't consider either Japs or beaner (or chink, etc.) to be on the same level as the n word.

Although ironically many people of African descent use the n word for themselves....

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good point.

[alexander_busek]

>>Sorry, I worded poorly. It “Had been intended for Germany, and was in the European theater. Truman ordered it to the Pacific, as it was no longer needed in Germany, and Japan still needed more prodding.”<<

Sorry, but what you’re saying is still difficult to reconcile with the historical facts.

1) Germany surrendered on May 8/9, 1945.
2) The first atomic bomb ever made was detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945.

Hence, it follows that no atomic bomb could have “in the European theatre” (as you say) at the time of Germany’s capitulation.

Give up!

[Loud Mime]

Good reply.....right between the eyes.

Next time ask that dolt what they think of Japan’s legal age of consent of 13, and the culturally acceptable teenage prostitution.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What planet are you on, sir?

[johnny7]

Maybe the democrats in Congress could pass a resolution or something.

What?

It was “allied seamen” who were butchered... the left would give the Japs A CITATION.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Only if the Imperial Japanese were Bolshevik or aligned with Bolsheviks, would they be honored by today’s Left. The fact that they were fascist (in battle against both Bolsheviks—for part of August 1945, and Western Freedom since 1941) in nature will not necessarily mean today’s Left will have accolades for them.