Ernest Schaal wrote:

> Let me get this right. You admit that you don't condemn the invasion of
> Okinawa (that the invasion itself was justified) but you are "disturbed" by
> methods used.

Correct.

> The Japanese soldiers in Okinawa were fighting frantically,
> sometimes unwillingly (soldiers chained to their positions), and you are
> "disturbed" that the Allies used deadly force against such an enemy?

I am disturbed by what happened to one third of the population of the main island,
due to the fighting by both sides. I don't like civilian deaths, you see.

I thought a lawyer like you might understand. But they're just Japs, right?

> Please elaborate on what military methods (tactical or strategic) you find
> so "disturbing."

Oh, shelling a certain village for three days before coming ashore, as seen in one
US film clip, or shooting at a fleeing young woman carrying a baby from behind, as
seen in another. Pouring flaming gasoline down into caves in which civilians were
hiding. Things like that.

Things like that which would receive criticism, if done by Japanese, Nazis, or
other enemies of the US.

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