sparky wrote:He didn't even say that it was Japan who started it .
but harped along on how much the Japanese people had suffered from it
So the rest of the axis had NOTHING to do with WWII? It was all the Japanese fault?
So the Japanese should be celebrating because the US nuked two of their cities? Today the US calls combatants who attack civilians TERRORISTS. Funny how that works.
I'm just a white guy with friends from all walks of life who strives to ignore things like religion, race, how people dress, have sex, how tall they are, their eye color, and all that other stuff, and look at what people actually do re their communities.
The one-sided antagonism here reminds me of my completely irrational long time girlfriend's mother (call it virtual mother-in-law). I loved Japanese cars like Toyotas because they provided me GREAT service at a reasonable price -- especially compared to the crap Detroit offered. Plain and simple.
She HATED Japanese cars because of WWII. This was a good SIXTY YEARS AFTER WWII.
With attitudes like this, little wonder the way the constant fighting and killing seems so endless in the Middle East.
And I'm NOT giving the Japanese a "pass" for Pearl Harbor. I am saying that 70 years later, the entire fiasco which was WWII needs to be looked at with some perspective. It seems to me, for example, that there was this guy called Hitler who was rather aggressive and wasn't quite all goodness and light (I was more sympathetic to the emotions of my Jewish stockbroker who wouldn't buy German cars in the 80's/90's).