Several years ago I was working on a "team" launching a new Ford product at a Michigan assembly plant. The product was Japanese engineered because we were trying to capture whatever it was they had that we didn't in engineering, expand our markets, and blah, blah, blah. Anyhow, several very talented young American engineers had been hired out of college (they're now all big shots at Ford, and I'm retired). They were all sent to Japan to meet the Jap engineering team and get a sense of the culture. One of them was waxing one day on the sadness one felt upon visiting the Hiroshima Memorial about the deaths of those "innocent" Japanese. I asked him if there was any mention there of the Pearl Harbor attack, the brutalities inflicted on Allied POWs or conquered civilians? When he said no, I said, "Then f#@k them". I received kudos from a couple of WWII vets working close by. They started it; we finished it.
On Saturday we will be attending the annual VJ Day commemoration in Hillman, Michigan, one of the few places its still recognized in the US.
Amazing how the navel-gazers in the US are so uni-dimensional. The only bad actor is the US. These people have never lived abroad, apart from a vacation compound at a sea-side resort. Nor have they read history. Even the recent stuff. Obama’s most recent comments show him to be of the same stripe.