[kylesplanet]

Originally Posted by Mikkow

I've been a keen student of psychology (including propaganda), sociology and history most of my life. And it is clear that if people knew more about history, the present wouldn't be as terrible as it is.

From a non-american and non-japanese perspective, I can honestly not see that much of a difference between the Allies and the Japanese in the pacific. They were all various imperial powers of varying ambition who just happened to clash. Their behaviour in the wars wasn't much different either (yes, some were worse than others, but none were good).

War paths are too readily acceptable by the public. Maybe if they truly understood more what real war is about.

Btw, I just read this great link on the topic, how the allies pain themselves out to have been the good guys completely relating to WW2 and about atrocities of both sides, etc. Just what this topic is about: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...480178,00.html

I don't really care for the moral equivilance drawn there between the allies and the Japanese. No one wants to fight a war but sometimes unavoidable. It's always easy to infer "Americans are imperialist" it happens all the time but what if we sat it out?

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill