[ The liberals today didn’t live through that era and don’t know squat on how Americans felt during the war or their feelings towards the Japanese. ]
Yeah, Libs have no clue at all.
I do have a lot of respect for the Japanese, they went from medieval age lifestyle to full blown industrial revolution in under 50-60 years, 1860-1920. The problem was it was such a culture shock that they went power mad after they beat the tar out of the Russians During the Sino-russian war in the early 1900’s.
They got too big for their britches and started taking over the pacific Asian rim on island and country at a time. They were essentially running under a medieval war code using modern weapons and military tactics. As a result they ROLLED over the other less well armed and less industrialized Asian countries. They needed a wake up call to get them out of the Medieval mindset and getting thoroughly humiliated and humbled by the nukes.
Douglas MacArthur is essentially a “re-founder” of Japan, in that during the rebuilding of Japan after the war he made damned sure not to repeat the mistakes of Germany after WW-I and in the process we gained a very important ally in the Pacific. As a result the average Japanese citizen today has been more or less “Tamed and Civilized” due to his efforts in introducing more of western culture into Japan while at the same letting them retain many aspect of their Island culture.
Funny how you almost never hear the Libs talk about Douglas MacArthur, and when they do they Hate the Man for no damned good reason. This is a man who saw all the atrocities that Japanese Soldiers did in the pacific fronts, but he didn’t hold it against the citizenry after they had surrendered and were humbled when it came to the post war activities of rebuilding and humanitarian relief for the citizenry. He also helped establish their Constitution as well.
But the Libs love to cite the atomic bombing of Japan while ignoring how much we did to get their society back up on their feet.
Except when it suits THEIR agenda.... Of course they all forget that Nation building only works after the entire country has been thoroughly humbled and humiliated.
one reason “libs” don’t like MacArthur regarding his rule over Japan, is that he refused to permit the Soviets to take possession of the northern island and to have representatives on the other islands. He came the Soviets out of Japan and thus thwarted their plan to turn at least part of Japan into a communist state, like happened in North Korea and East Germany.