[Clinton's a rapist]

The Japanese must have had a kind of elegant, chilvarous, dying for Emporer-god, country and family--a rather sobered, honor-bound, sterile, fate sort of single mindedness. . . . quite possibly some demonic influence but not the overt coarse kind, a more subtle slick kind.

I read a fascinating essay about the Rape of Nanking in Newsweek a few years back. Inflamed by their divine emporer cult, young men of Japan perptrated acts of almost unimaginable barbarity against their Chinese victims: burying people up their heads in sand and leaving them to starve, decapitating young children and keeping the heads as souvenirs, and so on. The story told of an old man, now a physician, who had participated in such crimes in his youth. Now, he has a videotape about the atrocities playing in his waiting room full-time, his way of atoning for the crimes he commited as a youthful soldier of the Empire of the Sun. The story was a fascinating insight into the extraordinary capacity for good and evil in Japanese culture.

[Quix]

I stand corrected.

I'd forgotten that. THANKS

Certainly know human catacity for evil seems to know no bounds. . . potentially in any of us.

[The Right Stuff]

I would extrapolate that to the capacity for good or evil that's present in mankind, in general. This is why the Judeo-Christian worldview makes so much sense - man's fall, his ability to use free will in order to accomplish good or evil and the redemption message offered by Christ.

However, if these accounts are true (of the brainwashing of the kids, etc.) how is this any different than the Hitler Jungen or Mao's regime? If the kids are taught to hate Jews and Christians so fiercely, how in the world can we ever expect them to accept a Western point of view?

Furthermore, why has our media been so complicit in not uncovering this apparently pervasive Arab viewpoint?