RE: [Leica] Apology

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Vietnam? How about the American atrocities committed against the
aboriginal inhabitants of North America? How about using Small Pox
infected blankets as a weapon of war to kill men, women and children?
(The 'gentleman' responsible for that one has a college named after
him!)

And "cowardly sneak attack?" How about Washington's brave and brilliant
crossing of the Delaware? 


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Subject: RE: [Leica] Apology


Don R.,

> Did the Japs ever apologize for their cowardly sneak  attack on Pearl 
> Harbor killing 2,500 Americans or torturing to death thousands more 
> Americans in the death camps?  Of course not.

These acts are nothing compared to the atrocities committed
by the Japanese government in China and South East Asia (the rape of
Nanking, for one).  Do you know how they train their soldiers to act so
inhumanly ?  By brainwashing them that "they" are not "us", that "they"
are "inferior" to us, and therefore, "they" deserve it.  What about the
atrocities committed by the Americans in Vietnam ?  (Mind you, the
Americans didn't have the monopoly on war atrocities then either).

I cannot think of people of any nationality that has any history of
substance, that in the course of that history have not committed some
atrocities.  I believe that most of us in many of the same circumstances
will be able to do same.  The trick is not to let ourselves be in those
circumstances.

- - Phong

P.S. Actually there have been public apologies from individuals from
both wars mentioned above.  And I thought the Emperor of Japan did
apologize (with a gun pointed to his head, so to speak), once right
after the war, and also more recently.


Don R. wrote:
>
> Did the Japs ever apologize for their cowardly sneak  attack on Pearl 
> Harbor killing 2,500 Americans or torturing to death thousands more 
> Americans in the death camps?  Of course not.
>
> Do the Japs have any respect for Yankees (Americans)?  No, because the

> Japs consider anyone who surrenders a sub-human and thousands upon 
> thousands of Americans surrendered and were summarily butchered.
>
> The Japs favorite sport was shooting to death every American aviator 
> who bailed out of his plane while he was helplessly dangling in his 
> parachute.
>
> Let's put things in their proper perspective rather than in their 
> "political correctness" and stop this "political correctness" 
> nonsense.
>
> Don R.


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