Barefoot Gen

[Penguin]

Erm, apologist for what, exactly?  In the old sense or the new?

If you could list a few that I could read at my library, that would be great.

-Penguin

[wil3ur]

Why apologise?  The A-Bomb drops are good cinema and nothing more.  They had very little to do with Japan's surrender.  That's something they teach you here, read up on what really happened in the closing months of the war... You're arguement is based around a straw man.  It's like trying to understand WWII and saying it started because German's hated Jews, rather than looking into the underlying political and economic causes that came about because of the "end" of WWI.

I'm sorry, but the history channel is great entertainment, but it's "History" in the sense that the "Ministry of Truth" is there to make sure you know what REALLY happened.

[Penguin]

I'm very well aware of the crushing peace enforced by the allies after WW1, and the inherent underestimation of the damage that it did to German national pride.  The Japanese wanted resources and because of its tyrannical miltarist regime, it obtained them in a horrible way, thus leading to WW2 in the Pacific.

-Penguin