TJ, I would like to defend said fascistic Japanese soldiers who wrought carnage on innocent Chinese civilians including women and children who obviously had no idea about what was going on other than immediate terror.
On a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being totally unbecoming animalistic mayhem and 10 being Utopian 10th Dan Nirvana exponents, Japanese soldiers would be well up the list, at around 3, bordering on civil good blokes by comparison with some of the more egregious low-lifes who have marauded over the landscape such as your ancestor Genghis Khan, ransacking my benign ancestors' locales and your more recent Great Leader, Chairman Mao who did in greater numbers than did the Japanese at their most enthusiastic, leaving your kinsmen and Mao's in poverty for decades.
I wonder whether China's population might not have been better off if Japan's military had succeeded in their conquest and creation of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu
They would have stopped Yiwu the Mad and Bubba the Bigot from their still to be created horrors, especially if they had managed to get Yiwu's and Bubba's ancestors instead of innocent people. Imagine getting Adolf's ancestors in the 19th century. That might have save a lot of trouble. Not that one can run such back to the future experiments to really have any idea what would have happened.
What is, just is, and what was, has been. So, defending long-ago irrelevancies is somewhat pointless, though I can happily do so for your enlightenment. More important is to stop the same sort of people as the Japanese soldiers, namely Yiwu the Mad, Bubba the Bigot, Hu Jintao, and their like-minded Chinese clones, from wreaking havoc on more innocent civilians, women, and unknowing children which is their plan if those people decide they don't really fancy having Yiwu the Mad and mindless clone CCPers as Big Boss, and that they'd rather run their own affairs.
We need to stop said Japanese troops [oops, too late], and said Yiwu the Mad and mindless clones [not too late] before they create carnage. Yiwu the Mad speaking Japanese would not now be spouting her viciousness. Such a shame the Japanese failed in that regard.
Let's all praise Japan and Chairman Green$pan before they disappear completely into the clouds of history, myth and irrelevancy. Adolf was a good bloke too and I'm sure had some good points. Heck, he was voted in with democratic fervour, and democracy is generally accepted as being a good thing so Germans must have seen some good things about him.
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