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.
We agree, especially about the Japanese.
To get an idea just how horrible the Japanese were, it was their **LIBERALS** oriented toward the West who were allowed to run their puppet state in Manchuria which conducted human experiments in biological warfare, hypothermia, and trauma surgery. More typical Japanese occupying armies elsewhere had even more vicious attitudes — instead of keeping most of the civilian population alive and using only a few for inhuman experiments as the liberals did in Manchuria, Japanese who conquered elsewhere considered things like the Bataan Death March to be appropriate and normal behavior to conquered people.
My wife is Korean. My father- and mother-in-law, who now live in our home in the United States, lived through the Japanese colonization of their nation and were teenagers during World War II. Connect the dots.
As a Freeper, I'm sure you'll agree that multiculturalism is wrong. I'd go beyond that limited statement on which most conservatives can concur and say some cultures are so horrifically evil that they must be destroyed in order to be rebuilt from their ashes.
Nazi Germany and its Prussian predecessors, as well as the Imperial Japanese Shinto cult, are on my list of such cultures which could be fixed only by utter and absolute military defeat, followed by reconstruction by occupying forces. I'd probably say the same thing for radical Islam, though I still have some hope that liberal forms of Islam will do the same sorts of damage to Islam that liberalism has done to Christian churches. The Islamic “moderates” deserve time to try to fix their societies, just as we encouraged liberal Germans and liberal Japanese in the 1920s and 1930s before their reform movements failed, but I'm not optimistic.