My point was not to justify Japanese atrocities, but to point out that the US populace is just as capable of supporting genocide under the right circumstances as Hitler's Germany. Also that current US atocities in the so called "war on terror" have ample precedet.
“The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.” Mahatma Gandhi