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Who Should Apologize?
On August 6, 2010, U.S. Ambassador
John Roos attended the ceremony commemorating the
dropping of the atomic bomb on
Where is the outrage in
How soon we forget history. Our Euro-centric culture leads us to believe
that the start of World War II occurred at the Polish border in 1939. But many historians believe that the
worldwide conflagration started two years earlier when the Japanese created the
Marco Polo Bridge incident they used as an excuse to invade China. The Japanese had already been in an
undeclared war with the weak Chinese government for more than 40 years,
invading Korea in 1894, taking Formosa in 1895, Manchuria in 1931, and part of
China north of the great Wall in 1932.
Then in 1933 they imposed troops into
The attack on Pearl Harbor was primarily
to prevent the U.S. from thwarting their plans to take over all of Southeast
Asia, and they soon controlled an enormous landmass that included China,
Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and New Guinea, which
provided a rich source of natural materials.
They also controlled a large number of
When the Japanese cast themselves
as “victims” and demand an apology for the bombings, they are ignoring their history
of aggression and militancy. Before
demanding an apology from the U.S, they must look inward at their own nations actions, which directly resulted in an estimate of
between 25 and 50 million deaths in
We must not allow any official of
the
This is
a call for action. If you agree with
this statement, please write to President Obama, and your Senators and
Congressman. Doing so immediately will
make a strong and timely statement that we are not going to tolerate our
government backing down on the issue of an apology to Japan. Use your own words, or excerpt from this
editorial by Angus Lorenzen. Thank you from BACEPOW.