Subj : Japanese Common Sense 1/
To   : Bob Klahn
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Fri Jul 19 2013 12:24:10

Hello Bob,

>LL>or ethnicity.  Why did the Japanese choose to help the Jews when so
>LL>many others (including Americans) chose otherwise?  Maybe, just maybe
>LL>it had something to do with religion?  Or at the very least a sense
>LL>of human decency.

>WD>I think you need to start reading "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris
>WD>Chang and learn about the attrocities committed by the Japanese when
>WD>entering the Chinese city of Nanking and slaughtering 300,000
>WD>civilians in that town alone.

BK>In my critique of Lee's sentence above, I missed that point completely.

Iris Chang's version of events was propaganda.  Pure propaganda.
But then, winners always write the histories of events.  Never the
other side.

Yes, Bob, the South was right.  But Southern historians have never
been allowed to have their say.  Or rather, nothing they had to say
was ever taken seriously by those outside the South.

The same thing with Japanese version of events.  Nobody outside of
Japan wants to hear the Japanese side.  Ditto with the German version
of events.  Nobody outside of Germany wants to hear the German POV.

>LL>Just because a handful of Japanese military men got carried
>LL>away does not mean that an entire people was at fault.  And
>LL>lets not forget what we did to innocent Japanese citizens,
>LL>nuking TWO of their cities - just because we could.  Makes
>LL>me real proud to be an American ... NOT!

>WD>Another interesting fact is that several of Japan's WW2 war
>WD>criminals who were convicted at the eastern version of the Nurnberg
>WD>war trials and executed, are still being revered as heroes in a
>WD>shrine.

BK>Plus the prediction of an invasion death toll estimated at a million.

The Japanese high command had offered to surrender a full month BEFORE
the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The
Japanese high command, along with their beloved Emperor, knew the war
was lost.  Japan's navy was decimated.  Japan's armed forces had been
defeated everywhere.  Japanese cities (including Tokyo) were in ruins.
It was a lost cause, and everybody knew it.

However, US President Harry Truman refused to allow the Japanese to
surrender.  Why?  Because President Truman wanted to teach the Soviets
a lesson.  And what lesson was that?  Try to invade Japan (or any other
country) and we will drop the same kind of bombs on you as we did on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki (along with its residents) had been
reduced to an ash heap, at least President Truman rejected Curtis
LeMay's recommendation to atomize cities in the USSR.  Of course,
had them Soviets been gooks President Truman's decision might have
been different ...

>LL>Of course those Japanese "war criminals" were convicted in
>LL>our kangaroo courts and executed.  What else would you have
>LL>expected?

BK>That they were guilty? I suspect the victims thought so.

We condemned the former Soviet Union for having conducted show trials
and yet we conducted our own version.  It was a foregone conclusion
those who were put on trial were guilty.  All we had to do was go
through the motions to make it official.  And so we did.  Everybody
approved, except the Japanese.  On the other side of the world,
where a separate version of show trials were held, everybody approved,
except the Germans.

And that is what we called "justice".

>LL>Saddam Hussein mocked his Shiite executioners by asking
>LL>them just before they hanged him, "Is this manly?"  What a
>LL>brave man he was, hitting the nail on the head with that
>LL>comment.

BK>Or was he just nutso?

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not think Saddam Hussein
was nutso.  In fact, Rumsfeld travelled to Baghdad and shook Saddam
Hussein's hand.  In public and on camera.  Both men were smiling
as they shook hands, such best friends they were.  But that was
a time long ago, when Ronald Reagan was King of the USA.  It was
important to Ronnie Rayguns to sell (or trade) arms to our enemies.
After all, Arabs have an old saying - "The enemy of my enemy is my
friend."  Such were the days of Iran/Contra ...

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