Reply #36: Agree with 99.9% [View All]

[wickerwoman]

but "the Japanese are a peaceful people"... the Rape of Nanjing anyone? The Bataan Death March? The Manilla massacres? Sook ching? Unit 731? The Japanese committed widescale genocide in East Asia in living memory and the only reason it isn't as well publicized as the Holocaust is that the US needed allies against Red China.

If Japan is "surrounded by belligerent neighbors" maybe there is a reason, at least for those whose memories are more than 50 years old- including, oh say, tens of thousands of "comfort women" looking at their part-Japanese children and grandchildren.

I'm very sorry for the devastation caused by this earthquake and I hope that it isn't exacerbated by a meltdown, but Japan is not a "peaceful nation surrounded by belligerent neighbors" any more than Germany is a "peaceful but proud nation surrounded by Polish and French people always looking to start trouble".