Posted on 12/06/2016 6:54:45 AM PST by C19fan
The war has been over since almost a century ago. He owes no apology at this point.
If Japan had won would we have had Obummer?
The liberal elite thing about ‘apologizing’ for everything is a form of evil. At a macro level it covers over without assisting with necessary change or ‘righting’. Allows wounds to fester... allows evil to grow.
An apology for a past wrong is meaningless, unless the apology signifies a change in attitude which will result in a change in future behavior.
So, quite obviously, there is no change in future behavior intended. They can’t mess with anyone now, so they’re being quiet and polite. Maybe this will continue for several generations more, especially given their shrinking population...but make no mistake that someday Japan will again be the aggressor.
Agreed...besides the Japanese current government and its people have done nothing to us; it was their forbears and our forbears that had controversies with each other. Let the dead of history apologize to the dead! Let the living live at peace with each other as best they can!
Pearl Harbor was was still a surprise sneak attack. Yes there was a build up and an expectation that diplomatic relations would be broken and war declared.
However, it was arrogance and incompetence which made the Japanese late in their declaration. If they wanted to be considered honorable enemies they would have done things in a timely manner. Trying and failing to get a formal declaration of war to us an hour before was simply not good enough.
Its all old history at this point, and no apology should be expected at this point. But the Pearl Harbor attack was still a dirty move done by an enemy empire bent on total war.
Of course those guilty as hell bastards won’t
But I bet they’d “accept and apology” over Hiroshima
Screw them.....My beloved Mom was right about the Japs
He doesn’t need to apologize. He didn’t do it.
I don’t understand this urge to apologize for someone else’s actions anyway. If you didn’t do the deed, you don’t need to apologize.
Yes, Pearl Harbor was a legitimate military target. The issue of guilt has to do with launching wars of aggression for purposes of imperial expansion.
Nagasaki also had the factories and the steel mills, making it a military target.
Unless the current government of Japan bombed us, no apology is necessary.
Why should he apologize? He had no control over the Japanese Imperial Army nor does the present Japanese government represent that era. I do not and will not apologize for any actions our forefathers may have committed, to do so would mean accepting responsibility for those actions.
An apology is only meaningful if it is 1) sincere, and 2) made by someone with true accountability for the act or behavior resulting in the apology. Abe apologizing for Pearl Harbor is not meaningful based on the second condition. Therefore there is no reason for him to go through a charade that has no meaning. Same for Obama at Hiroshima.
[ Why should he apologize? He had no control over the Japanese Imperial Army nor does the present Japanese government represent that era. I do not and will not apologize for any actions our forefathers may have committed, to do so would mean accepting responsibility for those actions. ]
I actually agree, this is one reason why Japan hasn’t “gone Germany” with the cultural guilt that is destroying Germany right now.
There is a point that you cannot apologize for the sins of the ancestors, just move forward, which is why Obama failed when he apologized for Hiroshima.
Agreed. I don't think he should.
He doesn’t have to do anything. The probkem is with Obama
Japan used it's military aviation forces to attack the armed forces of another sovereign nation on that nation's soil without a declaration of war and without having had a justifiable cause to go to war.
In other words, exactly what John F'n Kerry has been repeatedly asking to do in Syria.
I'll stand with you on that.
Knowing what the US did to Japan in the years leading up to PH and what Japan felt they had to do to protect their sovereign nation, I'd have to say, we'd likely have done much the same. Except for the screw up in the timing of their declaration before launching the attack.
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