Of the end of the War in the Pacific.
It is interesting to note that the vast majority of death that the US caused to Japanese civilians is left largely unmentioned. Not to suggest that the acts are comparable, I imagine this blindness is similar to the sort of attitude the Chinese hold of Mao.
There's blood on the hands of all authority. The question then becomes, was it worth it?
For the American nationalists the fact that the Japanese fought dirty gave us the right to fight dirty back. That's been the law of war since Westphalia.
ReplyDeleteFor the progressives killing civilians is part of the process of recreating japan in their image.