maybe the prisoners of war can get over their bitterness too...
Posted on 12/06/2016 6:12:30 AM PST by mandaladon
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during a press conference Monday it was natural for World War II veterans to be “embittered” about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor, but they should get over it for the sake of America.
It was announced Monday that Abe will be the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor since it was hit by a surprise attack that killed 2,403 Americans and brought the U.S. into World War II. The visit reciprocates President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima earlier this year for the anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on the city.
Abe said in a short statement he would pray for those who died in the war, but gave no indication he would express regret for Japan’s surprise attack.
During a White House press briefing Monday, Earnest was asked whether veterans may be offended by Abe’s visit if he expressed no regret over the attack.
Earnest responded by saying veterans may very well feel “embittered,” especially if they personally fought in World War II.
“If I were a World War II veteran who was drafted by the United States military to go and fight for our country overseas in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, I might feel quite embittered, and I think it would be a perfectly natural and understandable human reaction to not be particularly satisfied with the words of the Japanese Prime Minister,” Earnest said.
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We have no reason to apologize for the Revolution - it was brought about by a long train of abuses, etc., etc. by Great Britain. Read your Declaration of Independence to learn something about why our forefathers revolted.
As to Vietnam & Cambodia - yeah, maybe we should, to those countries and to our vets. But maybe the Russians and Chinese should do so, as well.
Maybe if the people running governments around the world had 1/100 of the humility and decency of the average individual then less wars would start, and those that did might not last as long. You can call that simplistic if you’d like, but it is true...
...and the resentment of many vets for what they, their friends and their relatives had to go through is not open to question by us (not unless you, yourself, served in that conflictt - ONLY then do you have a right to criticize in such a contemptuous manner).
Incredible. I wonder if Obama invited him to Pearl Harbor.
I haven’t gotten over the serpent/satan tempting Eve.
maybe the prisoners of war can get over their bitterness too...
Yet another example of a tone deaf President that just doesn't get it...yes, there was a draft, but many enlisted out of a sense of patriotism to defeat the Japanese who were the enemy. It was an attack on our country and, therefore, all of us. They weren't "embittered" because they were drafted, they were "embittered" because they were angry we were attacked and fought a brutal war to defeat the Japanese Imperialism.
FU Josh.
“Dec 7,1941 - A date that that will live in infamy” - FDR
Sorry a-hole, a true American will never forget or get over it.
I remember back in about ‘87 I was going to Hawaii for a special two weeks vacation. My dad and mom had been two years prior. My dad, a decorated WWII Master Sgt., had told me how he was particularly warning me about my planned visit to the Arizona memorial. He said to be ready, there were going to be Japanese there who had no sense of this being a memorial to the dead. They would be kidding around taking pictures and laughing with an inappropriate festive level of animation. He said he had had to leave after just a few minutes — his level of rage was about to overcome him.
He projects his embitteredness that anyone should have to serve in the imperial colonist oppression... even if drafted. Speaking of, he intentionally uses the word "drafted". Clearly, this wretch attempts to revise history by ignoring the countless VOLUTEERS the cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor produced.
Those sons of bitches! Only 45 more days of this official crap. But you know it won’t stop there.
UFB! These despicable, traiterous, anti-American @$$hats can't get escorted out of D.C. soon enough. Why, of course!... Who didn't see this coming? You just knew it was all OUR fault!
I could type for days citing my extreme hate and disdain for these people but seriously, right now I just feel like screaming curse words when I read this 'effin bullcrap...
And the people that committed suicide because they were rejected when they tried to sign up!
Trump's win over the POS in our WH is as sweet as the victory over Japan!
“When they apologize for all of that, then we can talk about moving on. “
If you weren’t in the war, you aren’t owed any more of an apology in order to “move on” than you owe blacks an apology for slavery or Jim Crow from every random white person in order to do the same.
The generation that fought the war extracted what they wanted from the Japanese and the Germans and the Italians. If they got their satisfaction and “moved on” then there is no damn reason for someone born in the 50s-now to be hot under the collar trying to be a victim by proxy.
Japan got what they deserved. A destroyed military, flattened cities, two A-bombs, decreased territory, a reconstructed political system, generations of demilitarization, American overlordship, and rights to our military being there to this day.
It’s one thing for people that experienced the brutal force of Japan directly to be resentful. Heck I’ll even give it to the Chinese and Koreans, and people’s of SE Asia for being less than cordial. That’s just going to have to work itself out, or it may take until that war generation completely dies off. But I can see that Chinese, Korean and Japanese kids aren’t still fighting the war because they have a life they need to live themselves and a future they want to live without ever experiencing those horrors. The world reality in 2016 does not give us the luxury of unaffected generations pouting like leftists demanding “apologizes” for every wrong under the sun from decades and centuries ago.
Israel sends people out to capture old Nazis, not into high schools to harass German kids for apologies for stuff they didn’t do.
I can understand vets wanting something, or anything to ease the suffering, but they aren’t asking for us to fight WW2 FOREVER for an apology.
After reading of the atrocities committed on our Service Men and Women, my thought was not enough Japanese were killed.
“The bigger factor is that Obama himself has to “get over it” about his policies being utterly rejected in this past election, as well as in 2010 and 2014.”
I hope he doesn’t. I hope it gnaws at his guts and sends him to an early grave.
To his dying day, he referred to them as "Those purple-pissin' Jap Bastards!".
Earnest and the Jug-Eared Kenyan should shut-up, vacate the White House, and let us "get over them"!
Those purple-pissing Kenyan Bastards!
My father served in the Pacific in the USN in WWII. we were attending the LA Open golf tournament back in the 90s, when Jumbo Ozaki (Japanese pro playing on the PGA Tour) stepped to the tee. My Dad said ‘I don’t wanna see that Jap’ and moved on down the course. Some things you don’t forget and move on from.
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