tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post7723261279077065164..comments2023-05-28T00:54:26.034+09:00Comments on It's What We Do: But Do They LIKE Us?Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612105622644020339noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-90681585811064893632008-02-20T14:34:00.000+09:002008-02-20T14:34:00.000+09:00Drago is an Anti American pseduo- intellectual and...Drago is an Anti American pseduo- intellectual and posts on many sites. Has made a scant living being an asshole aggravitaing others. Please, for your own sanity, blow him off as just another lefty lib. Sorry you had to deal with his rubbish...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-46511340041695980212007-07-03T22:09:00.000+09:002007-07-03T22:09:00.000+09:00Oh, dear...Oh, dear...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-358973902801578892007-06-14T09:56:00.000+09:002007-06-14T09:56:00.000+09:00"Keep your politics to yourself"?!?!?!Are you out ..."Keep your politics to yourself"?!?!?!<BR/><BR/>Are you out of your MIND?<BR/><BR/>How dare you!<BR/><BR/>Your statement is itself political.<BR/><BR/>Think about it.<BR/><BR/>If you're still able.<BR/><BR/>Love,<BR/><BR/>CharlieCharlie Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443794500217620551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-27855609170728645892007-06-14T09:54:00.000+09:002007-06-14T09:54:00.000+09:00Sue,I'm not assaulting Kathy or even coming close....Sue,<BR/><BR/>I'm not assaulting Kathy or even coming close.<BR/><BR/>My proximity to Hiroshima has NOTHING to do with my understanding of the events in question -- an understanding based upon decades of study and analysis and thought.<BR/><BR/>We're not discussing a Japanesae "perspective." This is PROPAGANDA, and if you can't understand this beyond the "I'm OK, you're OK level," then God help you.<BR/><BR/>I struggle to grasp your point. Does one have to visit Gettysburg to understand what happened there?<BR/><BR/>Does one have to visit Viet Nam to understand what America inflicted on it?<BR/><BR/>What the hell is going on here? Have we become so terrified of truth and intellect and honest sharing of opinion that we have to watch what we say to the people we love most dearly?<BR/><BR/>God, why am I even bothering with this nonsense if that's what you all really feel?<BR/><BR/>Stop saluting and start thinking!<BR/><BR/>Love,<BR/><BR/>CharlieCharlie Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443794500217620551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-5713452300354499422007-06-14T05:29:00.000+09:002007-06-14T05:29:00.000+09:00To Kathy-- Thank you for sharing a story that ...To Kathy--<BR/> Thank you for sharing a story that we Americans have never heard from the Japanese perspective and for the pictures that speak volumes and teach us all that life does indeed go on.<BR/> <BR/>To Charlie--<BR/> When you are in Japan and you visit Hiroshima I'd be willing to hear your reaction. Since you are not there, keep your politics to yourself and leave Kathy alone.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307740767395547454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-18341659855030254302007-06-14T04:11:00.000+09:002007-06-14T04:11:00.000+09:00oh brother.........oh brother.........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-35082618159960665182007-06-14T00:19:00.000+09:002007-06-14T00:19:00.000+09:00Kathy,Your perogative, and I respect that.My ONLY ...Kathy,<BR/><BR/>Your perogative, and I respect that.<BR/><BR/>My ONLY point here is that everything counts. Everything. <BR/><BR/>My ONLY humble suggestion is that all of us who enjoy access to public forums -- and especially those of us who own/control such soapboxes -- are obliged to take extra special care with the language -- and with the truth.<BR/><BR/>Surely you agree that your sharing of what the Japanese tourist publications claimed was not offered as such; rather, it had the tone of a history lesson. Impressionable minds -- young and otherwise -- are on the receiving end of this blog, regardless of the fact that you wish only to share a "what I did on my summer vacation" travelogue.<BR/><BR/>My obligation when confronted with such grievous mistatements of fact presented matter-of-factly and with implicit endorsement is to endeavor to set the record straight.<BR/><BR/>That's all.Charlie Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443794500217620551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-40223469804101537222007-06-13T22:01:00.000+09:002007-06-13T22:01:00.000+09:00Public interpretation isn't my intention. I am rep...Public interpretation isn't my intention. I am reporting on what I saw and read. People can research further or not and form their own opinions. As I have said before, this is a blog of my "summer vacation" not a political rant. I want to share what I am seeing with family and friends.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00612105622644020339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-90323241260234459222007-06-13T21:51:00.000+09:002007-06-13T21:51:00.000+09:00Never forget, indeed.But the atrocitys' root cause...Never forget, indeed.<BR/><BR/>But the atrocitys' root causes are being buried beneath an avalanche of lies and half-truths.<BR/><BR/>If the official Japanesae line on the events is as you originally conveyed them -- the can't-pass-the-laugh-test business about Roosevelt wanting to demonstrate, if you'll permit me, bang for the buck (FDR was dead before the bombings, FYI) and the Germans reverse-engineering the wreckage of an unexploded Fat Boy or Little Man -- then they're playing along with their gaijin masters.<BR/><BR/>(For more on the latter, I urge you and your correspondents to read "Gold Warriors," by Sterling Seagrave.)<BR/><BR/>I would submit that, given the tender years of many of the visitors to this blog, and the flag-waving, believe whatever the authorities tell us mindset of many of their adult counterparts, you have a special responsibility as blogmistress to make certain that your comments on historic events are accurately contextualized.<BR/><BR/>That's all.Charlie Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443794500217620551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-54870755993537679972007-06-13T19:42:00.000+09:002007-06-13T19:42:00.000+09:00The Japanese point of view (I assume) is what I wa...The Japanese point of view (I assume) is what I was reading at Hiroshima. They also stressed America's "message" to Russia. Unfortunately there wasn't a herd visiting, soon the last Hibakusha (survivor) will be gone and people will need to be reminded of this atrocity.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00612105622644020339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-24851608307600555342007-06-13T06:24:00.000+09:002007-06-13T06:24:00.000+09:00And oh yeah, let me understand this:The A-bomb was...And oh yeah, let me understand this:<BR/><BR/>The A-bomb wasn't dropped on Germany because, if it were a dud, the Nazis would recover it and learn how it works?<BR/><BR/>They already knew how it works. The German nuclear program lacked materials and equipment, not theory.<BR/><BR/>Ask Prescott Bush's son and grandsons why Germany was spared.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Ask the Operation Paperclip boys.<BR/><BR/>(Werner von Braun titled his autobiography "I Aim for the Stars." Mort Sahl said, "He should have added, 'But Sometimes I hit London.'")<BR/><BR/>I take it that this revisionist B.S. is offered to the herds who visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Understand it for what it is: propaganda, concocted and disseminated by the war criminals to make palatable their crimes, confuse the record, and help predispose subsequent generations toward acceptance of the nonsense.<BR/><BR/>Either that, or Central Park was indeed designed in 1860 by Joe Pepitone so the Union Army could have a place to practice.<BR/><BR/>There. I feel better.Charlie Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443794500217620551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5900089510367631705.post-24737883434797989732007-06-13T00:55:00.000+09:002007-06-13T00:55:00.000+09:00Nonsense.The bombs were dropped to teach Stalin --...Nonsense.<BR/><BR/>The bombs were dropped to teach Stalin -- and the rest of the uppity world -- the lesson that the choice was Pax Americana or Pox Americana.<BR/><BR/>Germany was not targeted because of A) its complex business and other economic relationships with the US, B) established post-war anti-communist strategies, and C) Europeans are white, and therefore less likely to be targeted than are, in the words of American hero John Wayne, those "little yellow monkeys."<BR/><BR/>Hiroshima was not a "major military instillilation [sic]," as its absence from the original the original targeting list might indicate.<BR/><BR/>Further, and as the concensus view of free-thinking historians would support, there was not the slightest military necessity for the atomic attacks on Japan.<BR/><BR/>Like LeMays' incendiary attacks, the nuclear bombings were war crimes. Atrocities. <BR/><BR/>How many Japanese civilians died as a result of American criminality?<BR/><BR/>What's the dif?<BR/><BR/>Some 15 million Chinese civilians perished as a result of Japanese criminality.<BR/><BR/>What's the dif?<BR/><BR/>But let's never forget the Six Million!!!Charlie Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443794500217620551noreply@blogger.com