Really? You know in WW2 the enemy soldiers wanted to surrender to us because we would treat them decently?
Clint Eastwood’s Iwo Jima movie showed a Marine killing two prisoners who surrendered just because he didn’t want to stick around on guard duty.
It’s not something that I encountered in the book I read about the battle for the island.
I did read about a Japanese soldier who walked out to the men from a cave, didn’t give up but did talk to them for about half an hour, and then they noticed he was wired to the cave. He was killed without further death.
I also read that there were Marines of Japanese ancestry who helped talk the enemy into surrendering.
When our government and our entertainers say “we tortured prisoners”, they aren’t thinking of waterboarding and Barney tapes. They are taking Hunter S. Thompson at his word at ESPN where he wrote that what he saw (in the Abu Ghraib photos) was WORSE than the most horrific NAZI atrocities. Words mean things and the hyperbole used by the Left planted an image in their mind that emboldened them against us. The release of the Abu Ghraib photos (which did NOT lead the prosecution of those responsible, they were already under criminal prosecution) served as gasoline to make the area unstable, flood jihadists in from other countries, and soured stateside support for the war in Iraq.
Yeah, right! After Pearl Harbor the fanatical Japanese Bushido Warriors were actively seeking us out to surrender? Wrong! Read some history, friend. You do not know what you are talking about.
This is not WW2 and is not the same in any way, shape or form.
Analogy fail on your part.
Didn’t happen in the Pacific......