Japanese were not barbaric, Muslims are not evil, Whites are not racist. It really gets under my skin when people group and entire class of people. An idividual followed an order from another individual. If you studied the Muslim faith, you would understand that the "true Muslim" faith is extremely well mannered, and adopts a major recpect for human life. Down through generations it has been changed by extremeist (individuals) at take on a totally different persona from years of opression.
The Japanese did not kill your great-grand-father. A person was responsable for his death, not the Japanese. We all have to choose. We are all individuals. If I go out here and kill another man, that dosent mean all mixed race people are killers.
If I can leap from mid court and slam-dunk a basketball throught a hoop dosent mean because I have black in me Im good at basketball. There are all types of races that are good in basketball, just not publicized like blacks are in American basketball.
If I can spell any and all words correctly in any lauguage dosent mean because I have asian blood in my veins Im a good speller, it means "I" studied, or "I" have a gift (individual).
Please folks understand this. It does humanity harm when we categorize in this fashion. We are seeding the problem. Just think about it before you do it.
I couldn't agree more. It was not the Japanese as a whole who decided to attack Pearl Harbour or build Unit 731. These were decisions made by those at the very top. Mainly by a man who at the time was considered a living god. Let's not group all Japanese people at the time into one, especially not those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki who because of the war were mainly women, children and old people. They didn't do anything, It was the policies carried out by Hirohito and his generals that started the war. They were just that disgusting term "collateral damage".
As Friday said above, with all the money and time they spent on the project there was no way they weren't getting dropped no matter what condition the Japanese were in. The "bomb" was - in my opinion - far more of a warning to the Soviets than to anyone else. Truman and Roosevelt before him knew exactly how the Soviets were positioning themselves. This was a propaganda tool far more than it was a object of war.
And oh what happy days followed.
Wow, twisting my words and the truth.
The Japanese were barbaric.........Did I say every Japanese person no.
But how else could I word it? Ok The Japanese military was barbaric,
I've listened to many former Japanese soldiers speaking of WWII.
It was common practice to enter a village, kill the men, kill the babies and little boys and use them for bayonet practice many times.
Kill the older women and gangrape the young girls then throw them into a tent and burn them alive.
They did this to millions in the first half of the century.
It was also common for them to castrate, decapitate, or use prisoners for medical experiments.
Such as cutting off a limb, freezing or burning alive, shooting in various places, ect, just to watch what happens.
Did I mention disecting people alive?
So I will say it again,
the Japanese were Barbaric.
