Historical Revisionism

Looking at the picture of the Trinity test, it is patently obvious to anyone wearing a tin foil hat that the scubbing bubbles are racist.

Some of the comments in that LA Times article truly do illustrate just how far we've fallen in regard to our knowledge of history. It is with equal parts disgust and derision that I read over and over again the moral equivalence between what Hanks offers as some sort of back-handed condemnation of the Pacific war and our operations on-going in the Middle East. Apparently there isn't a single thing on the planet that cannot be completely blamed on the US, including atrocities like the murderous rampage in Nanking or the savage attacks on innocent Filipinos...oh wait, that wasn't the US at all, was it...those were perpetrated by those poor, victimized Japanese...well, I'm certain that somehow those attacks were either orchestrated by the racist US or by Bush and Cheney using their Delorean and setting the Japanese military up for the fall...that's heavy, doc.

I'm sure most of the readers know -- and even if don't, I'm going to tell you -- that prior to Japanese attacks on China, the U.S. was selling oil and scrap metal to Japan. How do you think they built many of their naval vessels? However, as the war of conquest against China (from 1931 onward, basically) dragged on, and Japan started rattling its katana about its "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," American imports were cut back and eventually cut off. Maybe that's the "blockade" to which Mr. Lorence was referring...[wait for it, wait for it...] but I doubt it.

Another thing to point out would be the depictions of the Germans and Italians in propaganda during World War II (but also, for example in World War I). The Germans were generally portrayed as "The Hun" an apish, brooding figure, often with fangs, rapaciously ravishing the flower of American and British womanhood. There is an excellent collection of World War II propaganda-from all sides (American, British, German, Japanese) in the World War II museum in New Orleans, I highly recommend it. It depicts, rather well, the widespread demonization on all sides that was common at the time.

People didn't fight the Japanese because they were "different", they fought them because they declared war on us because we objected to their play for dominance in the Asian theatre (and before MOTHAX assumes what I'm talking about is Kabuki I should probably change that to hemisphere). We didn't fight the Germans because they were "different" we fought them because they were running rampant over our European Allies.

The notion too, that we fight the Afghans because they are "different" is similarly flawed, in that we fight them because Al Qaeda attacked our soil with funding and training support that they received from Taliban allies in Afghanistan. I will further point out that a recent quote from a Taliban detainee in Pakistan noted: "The Taliban have only one objective: to continue killing the Americans."

Why we fight is important.

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I think the green light for historical revisionism started in real time during Vietnam. The famous quote by Walter Cronkite after Tet that "the war is lost" even though everyone within the military sphere on both sides knew that we did, in fact, win the Tet Offensive, since none of the military objectives were achieved by the North.

There was a program on the History Channel, I believe, where they had several big name actors sputtering revisionist history by a certain "historian" that is famous for exactly that; revisionist history. People like this Lorence see that crap and then turn around and repeat what they just heard as though they have now become learned "experts" on history. I know several people that are more "expert" about our war history than I will ever know, yet I know much more than Lorence does. So, who is ignorant of the facts, Lorence?

BTW I bet Lorence doesn't know that we also had Italian Americans in detention camps, too.

Isn't it true that the Purple Hearts minted for the invasion of Tokyo were distributed to wounded soldiers through the Vietnam War and beyond? Maybe still? At any rate, if we had not ended the war then and there, one can only wonder what kind of mega-destructive bloodbath -- how many on both sides -- would have been obliterated. One can only wonder if such a battle had continued for one, two or five more years what that would have meant for the second half of the century. Tojo was as much a tyrant as Hitler -- even more so according to many accounts -- and Japan's suicide-bombing approach to warfare was, at the time, not too far removed from the fanatical attacks of today's war. We are now in World War III, and the initiatives that won World War II -- the calculated sacrifice of human life in Normandy and the conclusive A-bomb, are cards we cannot play anymore. Leaves one to wonder how the final whistle will blow when the GWOT finally ends. Is it the Crusades? The Hundred Years War? This was not about racism. This was about salvation.

Very shorts, simple and easy to understand, bet some more comments from your side would be great

Historical Revisionists distort history to promote a political agenda that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day. They seem to think their agenda is TOO IMPORTANT for the truth.

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