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Date: 2020-Aug-08, Saturday 17:29 (UTC)And I certainly do think America shares blame for being the only country to drop bombs in a war situation.
On the other hand, it's also clear this is used by Japanese Nationalists to ignore things like Unit 731 and Japanese atrocities in this and other wars. It's not as if Japan was an innocent saintly regime.
It's odd how countries/societies who have to face the consequences of their own horrors suddenly start to make radical changes.
There's such a view of Japan as peaceful (admittedly more due to surrender conditions than any personal moral choice as a nation), but it worked. (Guh I sound like an apologist for US Imperialism).
Likewise, Germany's "Never Again" (despite a lot of hypocrisy in that arena), they at least made an effort.
What sort of atrocities will it take inflicted on the American people to regret our ways? It seems like the deeper "we" (as a society) dig in our heels to refuse to admit our past wrong doings, the more comeuppance is required to force us to face the recognition.
IDK. Just some thoughts.