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Originally Posted by Aviv

Very few Japanese war criminals went to jail or were executed. Neither were many Americans, either. What I find difficult to accept is how easily people remember war crimes that the Germans, Japanese, Vietnamese etc (and for me, Israelis too) have done, yet easily forget things like the killing of surrendered soldiers and the bombing of Dresden in WWII, My Lai massacre and chemical warfare in Vietnam. Of course it happens today as well, and nobody remembers where 47 civilians at a wedding party were killed by US forces in Mukaradeeb, Iraq. In fact civilian casualties are hardly reported at all. It's all to do with how the medias choose to show things to people.

As an example in my country; when a Palestinian/s is killed, it makes world news for days. When an Israeli family of 5 is killed in their sleep, it doesn't even make national news in a lot of countries. That rockets fall on southern Israeli towns each day is not reported either.

I would like to see more effort towards more balanced journalism.
Please keep in mind that I'm not anti-US, I just think that a lot of stuff is misrepresented in the medias. I don't mean to offend anyone, it's just something I feel strongly about.

Well it depends on the situation some things you are speaking of where not intended by military high command and where mistakes and others others where purposeful there is a huge difference(not referring to the rocket attacks).I know for a fact that the Mai Lai commanding officer (don't recall his name) was court marshaled and found to be guilty but received pardon later I think from Ford.

And in some cases like General Yama----a "The Tiger of Malay"(http://www.google.com/search?q=The+T...ient=firefox-a go to the wiki page cant direct link thanks to ---- being removed even when it not ---- ) he was tried and found guilty of POW treatment in the Philippines even though he took over that command in 1944 and did not set the standard of treatment that the previous commanders set he did not really change anything he and nothing to do with the Bataan Death March in 1942 but was found guilty because even though he did not directly promote bad treatment he did not do anything to stop it either though that was the view of his high command so it is not like they'd have listened to him had wanted to improve things for POWs some of his troops killed Brit POWs in Malaya in 1942 but he may not have even been aware of it.

You aren't going to find very many truly balanced media sources I think that people should be better educated to evaluate different sources to have a more balanced view of things they get form media.

I do agree with you opinion but I disagree that mistakes and actions the US have done are not known about I know about the wedding you speak of and other mistaken attacks on people that have occurred in Afghanistan.Also many Americans know about the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.The US and Israel are the same boat when it comes to our military actions and medias view on them in many cases.