31-05-2013, 01:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 31-05-2013, 02:35 PM by Jim Hackett II.)
I know and knew a few veterans of both so called theaters.
Both locations held "war crime trials" for the unforgivable.
Too few know today that the Imperial Japanese military forces committed crimes against humanity at least and if not more grievous than the 3rd Reich.
The accounting of the 46 - 50 era seems to be able to ignore non-white victims.
Germany at least went through the motions of regret (maybe to get into NATO?)
Japan clings to their presumed superiority over all barbarians. The view they hold even today is that Japan didn't violate any moral restrictions at any time but would castigate the US for using atomic weapons in war.
If I didn't know veterans captured by the Japanese, I would not know for fact that:
1) Many millions of Chinese, Malayans, Burmese and other Asian civilians were killed for sport aside from the Rape of Nanking.
2) They fed ground glass to allied prisoners of war.
3) They forced American POWs to work in condemned mines to die by starvation or by "accident" in the mines.
Worked to death or killed by working conditions as SLAVES saved from death only by service rendered to the kind Emperor Hirohito.
These were materials mines deemed too dangerous to harvest even by the lowest Japanese caste.
Yes they still have those.
Japan to this day refuses to acknowledge they committed crimes in the name of their Emperor. An American preserved Emperor.
Not even in the Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor killing people that went to sleep in peace.
They are not capable of admitting crimes against humanity, with some notable exceptions, as is Mr. Saburo Ienaga.
The Empire wants us to forgive and forget the past.
Not likely. Neither do I forgive forgetting who won the damn war and at what cost.
Both regimes I cannot forgive.
Moreover when the regime still won't face history proven as The Empire of Japan refuses to do.
Who started the war? And who lost the war?
The 3rd Reich is a little easier to forgive, it DIED.
The monarchy of Japan lives and I'll be damned if I understand what MacArthur thought he was doing in letting the Emperor rule ever.
From that morass of geopolitics after devastation on a global scale the cold war was manufactured.
Consider that in '45 as Prouty reported the man-packs of war materials for Japanese invasion were sent to Korea and Vietnam. Both in Asia?!
The two places chosen to host the next two "brush-fire" wars of the cold war. Logistics is warfare, er successful warfare.
Someone knew before the end of the 2nd war exactly where the next two wars would fall.
Both sides of the geopol game. I bet.
The Cold War was on.
Armies were poised for more devastation all over the globe. A golden opportunity.
But the Elites had to wait - people were war weary and would refuse conscription in '45.
There is a great audio interview with Fletcher Prouty "origins of the cold war" that I think maybe available at Prouty.org for listening.
I highly recommend it. It is on the Collected Works CD that Fletcher did.
Both locations held "war crime trials" for the unforgivable.
Too few know today that the Imperial Japanese military forces committed crimes against humanity at least and if not more grievous than the 3rd Reich.
The accounting of the 46 - 50 era seems to be able to ignore non-white victims.
Germany at least went through the motions of regret (maybe to get into NATO?)
Japan clings to their presumed superiority over all barbarians. The view they hold even today is that Japan didn't violate any moral restrictions at any time but would castigate the US for using atomic weapons in war.
If I didn't know veterans captured by the Japanese, I would not know for fact that:
1) Many millions of Chinese, Malayans, Burmese and other Asian civilians were killed for sport aside from the Rape of Nanking.
2) They fed ground glass to allied prisoners of war.
3) They forced American POWs to work in condemned mines to die by starvation or by "accident" in the mines.
Worked to death or killed by working conditions as SLAVES saved from death only by service rendered to the kind Emperor Hirohito.
These were materials mines deemed too dangerous to harvest even by the lowest Japanese caste.
Yes they still have those.
Japan to this day refuses to acknowledge they committed crimes in the name of their Emperor. An American preserved Emperor.
Not even in the Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor killing people that went to sleep in peace.
They are not capable of admitting crimes against humanity, with some notable exceptions, as is Mr. Saburo Ienaga.
The Empire wants us to forgive and forget the past.
Not likely. Neither do I forgive forgetting who won the damn war and at what cost.
Both regimes I cannot forgive.
Moreover when the regime still won't face history proven as The Empire of Japan refuses to do.
Who started the war? And who lost the war?
The 3rd Reich is a little easier to forgive, it DIED.
The monarchy of Japan lives and I'll be damned if I understand what MacArthur thought he was doing in letting the Emperor rule ever.
From that morass of geopolitics after devastation on a global scale the cold war was manufactured.
Consider that in '45 as Prouty reported the man-packs of war materials for Japanese invasion were sent to Korea and Vietnam. Both in Asia?!
The two places chosen to host the next two "brush-fire" wars of the cold war. Logistics is warfare, er successful warfare.
Someone knew before the end of the 2nd war exactly where the next two wars would fall.
Both sides of the geopol game. I bet.
The Cold War was on.
Armies were poised for more devastation all over the globe. A golden opportunity.
But the Elites had to wait - people were war weary and would refuse conscription in '45.
There is a great audio interview with Fletcher Prouty "origins of the cold war" that I think maybe available at Prouty.org for listening.
I highly recommend it. It is on the Collected Works CD that Fletcher did.
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON