WTF is wrong with this country?

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Originally Posted by Oerets

They had a a group in charge who had the flawed hope that inflicting enough damage on the US would give them leverage in negotiations. Make the US bleed enough that there would be a push to stop the war. With the War in Europe over that is.

To accomplish this end they were more the willing to sacrifice their population....to the last man woman and child!

Scary what humans are capable of!

Originally Posted by Oerets

They had a a group in charge who had the flawed hope that inflicting enough damage on the US would give them leverage in negotiations. Make the US bleed enough that there would be a push to stop the war. With the War in Europe over that is.

To accomplish this end they were more the willing to sacrifice their population....to the last man woman and child!

Scary what humans are capable of!

Indeed. But what I was referring to is their unwillingness to this day, led by their Conservative Party, to acknowledge their brutal atrocities against the Chinese (e.g., Rape of Nanking) and Koreans (sex slaves (comfort women).

In a way, I guess it is not all that different from American conservatives now trying to rewrite the brutal aspects of black history or Russian conservatives glossing over the Stalinist purges and the gulags.