[RedMonqey]

On the micro level, an Bengali's father seeing his family starve to death because of the actions of the British Churchill's war strategy made little difference from the Japanese. But on the macro level, siding with the British war effort, even though it meant suffering for millions, allowed the Indian people to eventually win their independence though relatively peaceful means.

An Gandhi's peaceful revolution would never have gotten anywhere with the Japanese Military extremist that reigned in Tokyo. Brutal, prolonged conflict with casualties worse than any “Churchillian’ famine with no guarantee of independence.

Anyone who would equate the British Empire, with all it's flaws, with the Imperial Japanese Empire with it's Bushido creed doesn't know history and any rational discussion would fall on deaf ears.

Leftists, who excuse Stalin's and Mao's brutality as a means for even more brutality use the West's horrible events (but necessary given the options at the time) like the Bengali famine as a cudgel to batter Western politicians with the past to get them to affect policy today.

It is so easy to judge people in the past when we in the oh so comfortable present, made so by the actions of these "horrible men"

Please don't count yourself among these people.

[Snickering Hound]

On the micro level, an Bengali's father seeing his family starve to death because of the actions of the British Churchill's war strategy made little difference from the Japanese. But on the macro level, siding with the British war effort, even though it meant suffering for millions, allowed the Indian people to eventually win their independence though relatively peaceful means.

So taking rice from people to feed your people at war on the other side of the world is ok...If you're on the other side of the world.

And it's just a coincidence that the area you are starving and taking transportation away from is also the center of the Indian Nationalist movement.

Anyone who would equate the British Empire, with all it's flaws, with the Imperial Japanese Empire with it's Bushido creed doesn't know history and any rational discussion would fall on deaf ears.

They were both empires that believed they were the master race to rule the world.

They both invaded China, Britain was just more successful and even kept Hong Kong until very recent times.

Both were responsible for murdering millions in the territories they conquered.