re: #570 calcajun

I had to put down Brady’s book “Flyboys” when started equating the Japanese of the 1930’s and 40’s with the Americans who settled the west, and that more Americans were like John Chivington of Sand Creek Massacre infamy than not. Americans may have been brutal to the native Americans, but they did not have beheading contests like those after the fall of Nanking.

Native Americans were brutal to the settlers here too. And that wasn’t caused by anything we taught them. They had a history of tribe against tribe brutality before we ever set foot here.

What the Japanese did in China and other parts of the world during WWII was (as buzzsaw pointed out) from what they knew culturally and what was condoned by their own military and Emperor Hirohito. I doubt they thought about it for a second.