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Hortlund -> RE: Letters from Iwo Jima (11/18/2007 11:09:52 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sarge
Your missing the point, the moral breakdown of a military force is what Doggie was pointing out .
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You can hardly make the assumption from the rouge My Lai incident and imply it to the Holocaust and Nanking .
Two where attempts to exterminate a race one was a rouge incident in the field .
Lets not go into the "who was worse", discussions like that never ends well. For that matter, once you have passed a certain threshold, you are too far into "bad guy"-land that it doesnt matter if someone was even worse. Lets just focus on the important lesson to be learned. Guilt is always individual, never collective.
And what, if not a moral breakdown of a military force, would My Lai be characterized as? But like I said, lets leave that.
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Your replies are based on emotion with zero historical insight of Japanese doctrine of WWII.
Rubbish. Now, Im not going to be childish enough to sit here and say that I know more about Japanese doctrine in ww2 than you, because I dont know what your knowledge level is. But let me say this. I was involved in the development of HoI2, and one of the things that fell on my desk was to do the doctrines for all the major nations...which meant that I spent several weeks researching the doctrinal development of all those nations...which includes Japan, incidentally. So I know quite alot about Japanese doctrine in 1931-1945.
And lets leave all that aside too, because even that is beside the point. What I objected to, and what I continue to object to is the absolutely idiotic idea that all Japanese soldiers were bad or evil.
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