Axis of evil

Originally posted by Undertoad
Yeah yeah yeah. AFTER Pearl Harbor.

But what we were discussing was: what caused the memo? The memo that points out that, at the time, there wasn't the political will to go to war. Doesn't sound like a bloodlusty racist populace in the memo.

His long posts were in response to my request that he prove that the decision to "drop the bomb" was "justified" by the fact that "Japs were less than human" (which, unfortunately, it does not do).

As for what caused the memo - I'm not sure what caused that memo specifically, but there are all sorts of theories about why "the US wanted to go to war with Japan". It had been talked about for quite some time, that much is certain. Theories range from racism to protecting human rights and everything in between. It's hard to know what to believe.

[ Edit - You may want to check out http://www.tribo.org/nanking/ which has, at the very least, some pictures that will give you an idea of the Japanese atrocities in China ]

[ Another Edit - And here's a better page - GRAPHIC - http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jackson/rape/pageone.html ]