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In reply to the discussion: The Real Reason We Bombed Japan [View all]Bigmack
(8,020 posts)I just feel we have no right to be all morally superior, what with our history...
Not absolving the Japanese.... not blaming America first..just pointing out some uncomfortable facts.
You want to talk genocide? How about the Native Americans in this country? How about the hundreds of thousands of Filipinos we killed and imprisoned during the Filipino insurrection? How about slavery? How about killing about 2 million Vietnamese in a war of choice? How about what we've done in the Middle East.
In sheer numbers killed - comparing the Japanese in their Empire phase to the US in our ongoing Empire phase - the US is far ahead.
Our advantage is that we won the wars...well, up until 1945, that is... and we get to write the history and leave out the parts that embarrass us.
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