Posted on 08/01/2005 11:39:02 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon
She'd better hire a heck of a PR firm.
I was thinking just today of the similarity of militaristic Japan and fascist Islam. Both sacrificed their young people in suicide for a pseudo-religion.
The Japanese fought to the death until they ran into the bomb. My uncle was in a POW camp, he said when he was captured the commander said they would be "Enemies forever" and he was only interested in how many Americans died.
One of the reasons the US is in such trouble is we have dumbed down our history, and don't teach it to our kids. Defeating the Islamofascists will require the same commitment that WWII did.
Well, she could try building a library in Little Rock. (Or is that Rittle Lock?)
"Why am I not surprised that Aljazeera would back the idea that the WWII Japanese Terrorists were simply "defending" themselves."
Yeah, defending themselves, by chopping off the heads of their prisoners.
What worries me most are the parallels between China now and Japan in the thirties. The same expansionist aggressiveness on the one hand and the same complacency on the other.
Ping!!!
Japan had been building up it's military for several decades prior to Pearl Harbor. I don't think it was a war of self-defense.
He was an executive of Mitsubishi Motors at the time. One of the few Freepers I imagine who saw Emperor Hirohito as well, live, on about five different occasions, and also met his son.
Nice smiling people; you'd never know their policies or those of their relatives were responsible for so much human misery in our modern history.
She's right, but for the wrong reason. Tojo wasn't one of the war planners and Hirohito was. Tojo "took one for the Emperor" as he was obligated to under Bushido. We didn't try Hirohito because we wanted a nice stable government for occupation, and because he really was being held prisoner by radical officers who wanted to prolong the war. But he was many times more guilty than Tojo.
What a spin doctor this Mrs. Tojo! Nevertheless, I don't think that's too reprehensible, especially if we take into consideration that Japan is now a mature and well-established democracy. Unlike China. Let's not worry about an old lady's revisionism, shall we? Let's worry about China.
No Problemo Hang Him again. And why do we allow Aljazeera
to stay on the air?
Use the lessons learned.
Why is it not surprising that Al Jazeera would speak well of a war criminal.
While there are some similarities, these pukes don't measure up to the dedicated fanaticism Japan displayed during WW2.
This is what happens with cleansed history books.
This needs to be addressed. Start with the dissecting experiments on awake US soldiers, or BATTAN bayoneting anybody who couldn't keep up for 60 miles.
They are starting to get the itch,again.
I'm torn on this one.
My first reaction to the article was that Hitler loved his dog too. Both Hitler & Tojo were leaders in their mass murder programs.
My second reaction was, maybe there is something to Al-Jiz's equating the Japanese in WW2 & the Islamics today. Both were murderous cults whose religious & cultural beliefs stressed that killing others was good. WW2 against Japan ended with two airplanes over Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Could Al-Jiz be recommending a similar solution today?
After reading a couple of letters from a serviceman of how nicely he conducted himself in the hospital, I felt bad after I found on the net he had been hanged.
He may have done a lot of wrong, but I would like his daughter to have some comfort.
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