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[quote=Ryzorian;844220]I had a huge drawn out letter but decided for this.

Suki, watch the HBO series "The Pacific". It will show you, even a little bit, what the US was like then and still is in many ways. Americans thought the Japanese were blood thirsty monsters that would rape and pillage the homefront if we let them. They weren't seen as "people, or civilians" but more akin to bizaar apemen with swords and fangs. You don't coddle a monster that threatens your family, you kill it.

That's how Japan was seen at the time, an external threat that had to be illimated. For all that people decry what happened with the bombs, the brutality of that war changed the US forever. Is the world better because of that change? Only time will tell.

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Its interesting what you say here RyzoriaN Because according to the recent film I have watched "JAPAN i COLOUR" the Japanese were given similar propaganda about westerners. when some who had been hiding in caves eventually ventured out-- they were terrified of these MONSTER Americans.

Maybe that has been the way all along-- spread rumours and propaganda that are lies-- in order to inflame the population.