re: #592 calcajun

But Brady was writing as though there was some moral equivalence between the two; that the Japanese were only exercising their manifest destiny as we had a century earlier. I disagreed with that point and stopped reading.

I disagree too. If you go way back in colonial times in New England, the restraint shown by our colonists in battle was remarkable in the face of an enemy who showed no quarter, including the slaughter of innocent women and children.

The Japanese had to be taught by the western civilized world to rid themselves of their barbaric ways.

There’s no moral equivalency between the old ingrained Japanese culture and what happened on the battlefields in the 1800’s or earlier here in America.