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Blaming America on God’s Behalf — 51 Years Later

Tuesday 08 Aug 2006 | Jacobse | History |

6 Responses to “Blaming America on God’s Behalf — 51 Years Later”

1. 1) |  Top | Aug 08 2006 | Christopher

   Talk about your cheap grace (from Griswold). The Japanese Bishop on the other hand has a Christian view of the matter. Concerning Griswold, who buys this tripe?

2. 2) |  Top | Aug 08 2006 | demesne

   “squeezed time into his schedule this week for an apologetic visit to Hiroshima”

   actually it was a year ago in october

   tooley couldn’t resist the cheap shot tho

3. 3) |  Top | Aug 08 2006 | wordy

   Whenever someone expresses ‘repetence’ or ‘regret’ about our use of the atomic bomb, I remember that the Japanese military attempted a coup to stop Hirohito from surrender. This happened after the bombs were dropped. When you consider the type of mindset behind that action, it becomes clear that a land invasion would mean more loss of life and a prolonged conflict.

   You can regret that war is a reality of life, but dropping that bomb saved lives in the long run - specifically, those of our fathers and grandfathers. This also underlines why we want to remain a superpower. Deterrence means stopping the conflict before it happens. That’s a constant from the schoolyard to the security council. Being a superpower is a good thing.

4. 4) |  Top | Aug 08 2006 | Dean Scourtes

   As far as I know Japan has never apologized for the infamous Rape of Nanking, one of worst atrocities of the Second World War.

   In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China’s capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war.

   .. Filmed footage and still photographs taken by the Japanese themselves document the brutality. Smiling soldiers can be seen conducting bayonet practice on live prisoners, decapitating them and displaying severed heads as souvenirs, and proudly standing among mutilated corpses. Some of the Chinese POWs were simply mowed down by machine-gun fire while others were tied-up, soaked with gasoline and burned alive.

   After the destruction of the POWs, the soldiers turned their attention to the women of Nanking and an outright animalistic hunt ensued. Old women over the age of 70 as well as little girls under the age of 8 were dragged off to be sexually abused. More than 20,000 females (with some estimates as high as 80,000) were gang-raped by Japanese soldiers, then stabbed to death with bayonets or shot so they could never bear witness

   If Japan will not apologize for this atrocity, we should not feel bound to apologize for trying to prevent Japan from committing others like it.

5. 5) |  Top | Aug 08 2006 | Christopher

   “tooley couldn’t resist the cheap shot tho”

   I wish it were a “cheap shot”. I sorrow for all the Christian’s I knew (as a formal Episcopalian) who suffer under the neo-pagan thought of men like Griswold. I pray we have more and more Tooley’s who point to the sad truth of the apostasy of the what used to be a Church…

6. 6) |  Top | Aug 09 2006 | JBL

   Dean,

   In 2005 Japan gave a half-hearted apology for Nanking and biological experiments in China. It was given by the Japanese PM but never endorsed by the Japanese Parliament. There were some previous apologies in Singapore.

   But truthfully Japan has never dealt completely with their war activities. The primary reason Japan doesn’t make a national formal apology is that in so doing would cost them millions in reparations to victims of their atrocities.