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To: Timocrat
Stupid comment re: MacArthur. Anyone who understood how separated the emperor was from actual governance and military planning appreciates just how capable MacArthur was in using the emperor to rebuild the country and bring it into American orbit.

Today, we have a strong and loyal ally in Asia which votes with us more often than even Canada does in the United Nations and other international forums. Japan is a check on China expansionism, a positive force for keeping stability on the Korean peninsula and the largest and most consistent contributor to U.S. military operations save only the U.S. taxpayer.

Burma and China were both sideshows to the main war in the Pacific which, while they tied up a lot of men and material, did not turn around until the Pacific War was won.

Unlike the Germans, the Japanese did not elect the military leadership which led their country to disaster. They took over in a coup. So yet another apology from a people who had little control over the situation would be empty and meaningless.

Finally, had your bloodthirsty "solution" been implemented, Japan would've been little more than a vassal state much more receptive to Russian or China's dominant interests than to ours.

80 posted on 06/11/2015 9:52:11 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
Anyone who understood how separated the emperor was from actual governance and military planning.....

Hirohito personally ordered the use of Phosgene gas during the battle of Wuhan. He was far more involved than the imperial palace or MacArthur ever acknowledged. Herbert Bix and others, have detailed how Hirohito's, and other members of the Imperial family active involvement in the War was covered up.

Today, we have a strong and loyal ally in Asia

As we do with Germany

Unlike the Germans, the Japanese did not elect the military leadership which led their country to disaster.

The Germans didn't elect the Nazi's to power, they only won 33% of the November 1932 election. It was only after the Nazi's had suppressed a number of the other German parties that they managed to pass the "Enabling Act" which made Hitler a virtual dictator. The Japanese had general elections in 1932,36,37 and 1942, although like the Germans in 1933 by 1942 they effectively had a popular military dictatorship.

Finally, had your bloodthirsty "solution"..

At least my solution would have been endorsed by the USAAF pilots (and their families ) who when captured were the subject of vivisection by the japanese.

92 posted on 06/11/2015 10:57:42 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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