Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Ernest Schaal wrote:

>> You seem to conveniently forget that the Japanese military was mainly
>> responsible for those deaths, expecting the civilians to fight the enemy and
>> to commit suicide rather than surrender.

> Right. It was the fault of the Japanese for all 100,000 deaths. No need to consider
> American responsibility at all. Those Okinawans are a bunch of whiners.

No, but sometimes you're not given clear-cut choices. In such a case,
you're going to make mistakes, and will usually err on the side of
protecting your own rather than the enemy.


>> Military were also hiding in those caves and were shooting at Gis, or did
>> you forget that?

> Always? So why did Americans need to approach or to use translators, to even find
> out if people were within?

Um, not sure what this means; if they were gassing caves without finding
out if people were in there, then there seems little intent to hurt
them, yes?

>> Did you forget that resistance was particularly intense
>> from those caves?

> Whatever you say.

> Kill Chinese, bad. Criticize Chinese bad.

> Kill Japanese/Okinawan civilians, ok. Criticize Japanese, good!

More like "Deliberately target civilians, bad." BTW, the Japanese
criticize the Japanese/JIA for their actions in Okinawa far more strongly
than I've ever heard them criticize the US (or more strongly than they
criticize Japanese actions in China.)

Mike