Israel Forced To Apologise To Japan Over Offensive Hiroshima Comments

[dairydog91]

18. "Japan did not engage in an organized holocaust like Germany did. Period."

Jesus tapdancing Christ. Over 20 MILLION HUMAN lives, an enormous roll call of war crimes, and you're trying to draw a moral distinction because it was more disorganized?!? Yeah, I'm sure every Chinese woman who had 50 dicks rammed into every orifice before having her intestines ripped out with a bayonet really appreciated that fine distinction. "Hey, at least this is spontaneous thing! I'd really hate it if they'd given this some planning."

"About 5 minutes ago, you claimed that Japan has not apologized for what they did to China."

After which I mostly wrote about the difference between Japan and Germany's post-war behavior. I brought up Germany's cultural response, including the extraordinary fact that the only major memorial they build in their capital was a testament to evils committed by the German military. OK, fine. Japan's government has issued a plenitude of nice official apologies. Relative to the overall German cultural attitude toward the victims of their military, which at least tries to be "We are sorry", the Japanese response has far more of a barely concealed "Poor us!" attitude.

Yes, hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians got roasted by napalm, nuclear weapons, and conventional bombs. Too fucking bad. That's what happens when you stand behind a government that kills tens of millions of people in halfwit imperial adventures, and then, when those adventures bog down, engages in one of the stupidest military decisions in human history by attacking a country with over 10 times the industrial capacity. Moronic, evil, and much smaller than your rival military powers is no way to conduct yourself on the world stage. If my government was doing that, I'd sure as hell be getting out of dodge.