Same here.
It says a lot about President George H.W. Bush's restraint that he didn't use this in his campaigns. Bush was a legitimate combat war hero, gave up an Ivy League college deferment to become the youngest-ever American combat pilot, and apparently narrowly escaped being eaten by sadistic Japanese cannibal war criminals. It's the sort of thing nobody would believe and everybody would think is a wild exaggeration — except that it is TRUE.
We sometimes forget just how horrible some of the enemies of Western civilization have been over history. Obviously we have our problems as Americans, but eating the livers of enemies of our prisoners of war, and keeping POWs alive after we hack off some but not all of their limbs so we can harvest their remaining body parts for food without needing to worry about refrigeration in jungle conditions, is not on the list of American problems.
When American servicemen urinate on enemy corpses, it gets blasted all over the international media with other Americans killed in retaliation. When Japanese servicemen kill captured pilots and eat their roasted body parts, the case gets buried and most of those involved get released after eight years of imprisonment.
It would be nice to believe the reason for the difference is that Americans have higher standards and we get attacked for hypocrisy when we fail to follow our own standards.
The Germans deserve every bit of bad press they get, but there were men every bit as evil as Hitler walking around at that time, and they didn’t always have swastikas on their jackets. The Russians were at least as repulsive as the Nazis. The Japanese, who had no cultural understanding of surrender or prisoners, were worse. The Japanese not only believed they were the “Master Race,” they believed they were the only humans. They had no immigrant population to purge on their island homeland, but everybody else, everywhere they went, was fair game.