Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html