Reply #189: Bomb Terrorists? [View All]

[LeahMira]

Look up Japanese unprovoked terrorism on innocents in China and Korea, as well as other South Pacific
nations. Look up Pearl Harbor. Look up Japanese kamikaze attacks on young 18 year old Americans who
had never done a single thing to deserve being in the disease infested jungles watching other 18 year
old Americans being blown to bits who prayed for an end to the war - which appeared would not happen
without huge additional losses of innocent American and other lives, despite your twisting of facts. You
know, the things you like to forget while trying to paint us as the bad guys.

Let's see some threads about the terrorism of the Japanese upon people of many nations. Or do you
only bash Americans?


The Japanese cherished their 18 year-olds as much as people in the U.S. cherished theirs.

Sorry, Woodstock, but you hit on one of my pet peeves. There is always going to be someone somewhere that is doing worse than we in the U.S. are doing. If we always look around to see who in the world is the worst-behaved, we can "justify" just about anything we do, no matter how immoral, no matter how horrific. All that baloney started way back when Adam pointed to Eve and said "the woman made me do it... she did it first." Well, Adam didn't get a pass on that one, and neither does anyone else. We don't have wrong, wronger, and wrongest here.

The Japanese did many, many terrible things. Frankly, there's not one thing that anyone in the U.S. could do about the Japanese. We can, however, have a say in what our country does either by voting or by letting our representatives hear from us. In addition, it in no way makes the Japanese look any better to honestly admit that we also did wrong... of a different sort, but still wrong.

A lot of people "justify" the U.S. invasion in Iraq by pointing to Saddam Hussein's atrocities against his own people as well as his invasions and crimes against Iraq's neighboring nations. That's pretty much how the U.S. got into this whole mess we are in now.

IMO, it doesn't matter what any other nation is doing. We in the U.S. have the responsibility to reflect, reason, and figure out what response (if any) this nation should make without regard to what any other nation is doing.

Yes, the Japanese were bad guys and yes, the Iraqis were bad guys (at least the leadership in both nations were bad!), but we are not only the most powerful nation in the world but we are supposed to be the most moral. Moral isn't judged by comparison to what everybody else is doing. You are either moral or you are not.