I don't get that from his comment.
I also don't think looking at this history honestly helps our enemies. In my opinion, it exposes the hypocrisy of modern day liberal critics of our military. The fact is if the WWII troops were put under the same microscope our troops today are and had to fight under 2010 rules of engagement we would have put thousands of The Greatest Generation in jail or lost the war or both. After our troops saw how few prisoners the Japanese took and how those were mistreated, we took a lot less ourselves. Darn few German prisoners were taken in the Bulge after word of the Malmedy Massacre got out. War is hell and we ought to recognize that and quit trying to pretend it isn't.
You have some reason to dislike flame throwers? How else where we going to get them out of the caves. The marines that where the firemen had one of the toughest jobs to do. Jump in front of a cave opening and let the barbecue begin. My dad was a fireman, said the first one he did he got sick, after he found out what the Japs did to prisoners he didn’t get sick at all. I found out about this many years after he returned to the states with one of his legs destroyed. So flame throwers are good and the firemen that used them where all heroes.