I was going to post something snarky about this, but you know, if this man is sincere in his abhorrence of what his father did and stood for, well, more power to him, I guess. It takes a lot to admit it when a family member is an S.O.B.
If it were a Madoff admitting that his father was a con artist, or an abused daughter of a drunken father, you’d be right. But what to do if your father’s a mass murderer and you don’t like that fact? Only Omar bin Laden and the youngest son of Adolf Eichmann have that distinction that I know of. And the people are still dead, notwithstanding the disavowals. It’s not like they’re going to get into the saddle and become mass murderers themselves. So what does their disavowals amount to? Are they going to devote their lives to repairing some of the harm that their fathers did? That might be excessive. But other than saying, “I will not kill millions/thousands like my father did. Mass murder is bad,” they really haven’t done anything. Yet, at least.
The part about his father hated his enemies more than he loved his sons sounds sincere.
Read up on Mitsuo Fuchida a Japanese Airforce Officer during WWII.
I’ll give him credit for this. For now.
I would expect him to be taking quite the risk for saying and doing this.
Unless it’s a set up.
Sure does.