Here's a quote and I will render a segment in bold:
"Japan's military thrust into southeast Asia led President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration to impose sanctions. The US froze Japanese assets, an example followed by Britain and the Dutch East Indies. When Japan responded by taking over southern French Indochina, the US retaliated by imposing an embargo on oil exports to Japan. Rather than telling Japan that the US was determined to search for a diplomatic solution, America's categorical reaction confirmed it to the Japanese as an arrogant and conceited enemy. Moreover, by transferring its Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, the US encouraged the Japanese understanding that the US fully anticipated war with Japan.
The second world war in the Pacific finally came about for many different reasons. But it was, above all, the sense of encirclement and humiliation that united the deeply divided Japanese government. Feeling defeated by a series of failed approaches to the US, including an overture to hold direct talks with Roosevelt, prime minister Fumimaro Konoe resigned on October 16, making hard-line army minister Hideki Tōjō his successor.
The high-handed tone of the Hull Note of November 26, demanding Japan's withdrawal of all its troops from China, was a final blow to the moderates in Japan's government, who still hoped for diplomatic negotiations. By this time, many policymakers were convinced that the US was not ready to hear them out. It was ultimately in the name of saving Asia for all Asians from what was regarded as western arrogance that the government united to wage war. On December 1, it was decided that the war would commence in six days."
I forced myself to finish Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking" and having read some of what was done by the Japanese in the Philippines and Korea as well it is enough to make one understand her eating a pistol after all of her research. When I say that I "forced" myself I don't impugn her writing or the book, but the odious and evil litany of actions which it documents and which are truly hard to stomach even in the most vague manner, let alone in simple clinical depictions.
This jackass Eri Hotta can consider the invasion, occupation and atrocities of the Japanese machine and then take issue with the "high handed tone" of that Diplomatic missive?
So Japan "thrust" into South East Asia but it's "thrust" into southern French Indochina is to be painted as a "response" to having it's assets frozen by clumsy Americans and their lack of nuance in their diplomacy?
Sure. They would have stopped, we drove them to it...
Railing against common sense is highly esteemed by "high-handed" liberal elitists who love their own intellectual onanism.
This is how it begins. They get a satisfaction and sense of superiority by opposing conventional notions of whatever sort. They then repeat the new construct and congratulate themselves for being in the elegant minority as they echo the new mantra over and over until those too young to see the idea in all of it's preposterous nudity will give it an unbridled consideration.
"It was ultimately in the name of saving Asia for all Asians from what was regarded as western arrogance that the government united to wage war." Try and read that bit again, but this time without an audible manifestation of your disgust and creepy amusement at this individual...that is a challenge.
To quote the PresElect, if you see folks of this ilk "get in their face", step on their toes, fart in their general direction!
Update: On further consideration I think it worthwhile to mix that roster up a bit. Get in their general direction, fart on their toes, step on their faces! Any combination should do!
Monty Python "I Fart in Your General Direction" T-shirt
(see also the CT jackass Kurlansky)
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Hmmmmmmm...
What to do?
I did invite that didn't I?
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