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Quoting: Roy Sloan Hi John, I read Knights of the Bushido on the recommendation of my elder brother. The atrocities committed were horrendous. Maybe you will be able to tell me when it was written as I seem to remember reading it as a youngster. Kind Regards Roy.
Alright Roy, The copy I’ve got was published in 1954, I bought it in 1963/64. The things the sons of Nippon did in WW2 & during their invasion of China, to my mind, puts them in a sub catagory of humanity.
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Quoting: John (scouse) Hirons
Alright Owen, Before you carry on your usual kick against Israel & the west read those books (I’ll give you a list of some others) your lack of knowlage of the subject is showing.
Try reading "Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity" Scouse, Japan aren’t having all the glory mate. We are better at it than them.
What I was taught at school in history, I have since realised most of it was lies, or at least the truth was very stretched. We were all indoctrinated into a way of thinking and we knew no better at the time, in fact some still know no better now.
By the way Scouse, if you can kick off against Japan, I can kick off against any country I so desire.
Morality is doing what’s right regardless of what you’re told. Obedience is doing what you’re told regardless of what’s right....What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.
In all wars and conflicts atrocities are carried out by all sides, there is no doubt of that. I don’t read books that detail such atrocities, it is in the past and it cannot be changed, what would be the point of me reading about such horrors. I had an old relative who was a prisoner of the Japanese, he never talked about it and was never asked about it, what would have been the point?
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Quoting: Keith Baron In all wars and conflicts atrocities are carried out by all sides, there is no doubt of that. I don’t read books that detail such atrocities, it is in the past and it cannot be changed, what would be the point of me reading about such horrors. I had an old relative who was a prisoner of the Japanese, he never talked about it and was never asked about it, what would have been the point?
Atrocities are happening now Keith, they are not all in the past.
Couple of more books....Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson.
Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins.
These are the kind of books they don’t want us to be reading, and there are many more.
Morality is doing what’s right regardless of what you’re told. Obedience is doing what you’re told regardless of what’s right....What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.
