And in WWI we had big posters depicting the HUNS eating babies that they had impaled on their swords.
It is said by some the failure for people to believe what was happening in Hitler's Germany was during the depression the rank lying propaganda of those evil Huns posters had been exposed, so when people were hearing of the atrocities in Germany in the 40s it was, o here we go again--the propaganda.
But the "yellow menace" that started with the likes of Jack London, who was ultra ultra anti-oriental, was still quite alive in the the U.S.
Not that the Japanese and the cult of the samarai were nice at this point in history, the death march to bataan was real, the brutal run-amok rape murder and pillage in the Shanghai region is real.
And from a now deceased good friend of my mother that was in the prison camp depicted in the movie King Rat, i learned it was an accurate depiction.
The Japanese elders do not deny their reponsibility for WWII in the pacific, they do not deny the rule of the Samarai mystique was wildly militaristic, a cult of war. A cult of fight until you conquer or die if not succeeding, but never ever surrender.
Again i ask what i am supposed to respond, are you saying that we are the guilty ones for the war on Japan, and they were a gentle pastoral people.
I am sorry but all your posts seem to want me to condemn utterly america for every single evil in the world.
Here were a people that many would not even peek at the emperor on passing thinking they could die.
That many held the emperor to be a god.
Japan was seriously screwed up going into the 40s.
The amazing thing was how rapidly they broke from the spell they were under.
i don't want to get into the issue of Hiroshima, as it is a topic of huge complexity and i am writing now sloppy and disjointed posts because i am seriously busy with planting season( i am writing on the run,so to speak:), as we are now finally escaped the coldest and wettest May in the history of the Northeast, and this a big reason why the oil experts are in MAJOR alarm over the heating oil inventory, as it is shockingly low for this time of year, and bodes major ill for this coming winter, this is why heating oil prices are at all-time high levels in JUNE.
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