Kort Explores conundrums of the human condition

Japan today seeks to demonize America for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The mayor of Nagasaki publicly declared that the American bombing of that city should be ranked with the Nazi holocaust as a crime against humanity. Revisionist novels in which the heroic Japanese win WWII and conquer America fill the Japanese best seller lists. The Japanese continue to deny the appalling truth that legions of women from conquered countries were forced into service as sexual slaves for the perverted pleasures of the Japanese military.

Those who attempt to reverse the historic roles of aggressor and defender commit crimes against humanity on a par with the abominations they seek to deny. Worst of all, they insult those who paid the ultimate price to defend the freedom that is taken so lightly today. It is truly unfortunate that the revisionists can't experience first hand the tender mercies of the Imperial Japanese war machine.

The new Japanese revisionists conveniently forget the absolute barbarity of Japanese conduct during the war - a war the Japanese forced on the civilized world. One example is the rape of Nanking. While the Japanese military assault on the civilian city was an appalling example of criminal violence in and of itself, it pales in comparison to the officially sanctioned atrocities that happened after the fighting stopped. The real killing started 36 hours after the city had surrendered all resistance. Over a period of months, the occupying Japanese viciously murdered over 300,000 helpless Chinese one by one with bullets, bayonets, beatings, rapes, and live burials.

The crimes committed by the Japanese against the innocent residents of Nanking are only one entry in a long list of abominations committed by the Japanese as an integral part of their criminal military strategy. Everywhere they went, the Japanese created horrors in real life that Hollywood's special effects masters have yet to equal in their most excessive blood and gore fests. Most importantly, the Japanese abominations were all committed as officially sanctioned acts supported by those who were later legitimately killed in self defense by the American bombings of Japanese cities.

The American motivation in using the atomic bomb was to end Japan's war of aggression, and save the estimated 1 million American casualties an invasion would have cost. The American bombings were accomplished as legitimate acts of war against an active aggressor by a reluctant defendant forced into war by vicious Japanese surprise attacks. The second bomb was used because an unrepentant Japan continued its crimes of aggression against its neighbors even after the first bomb destroyed Hiroshima.

Fortunately for the Japanese, the bombings only killed less than 150,000 supporters of the aggressive Japanese campaign of violence and murder. Without the bombings to shock them to their senses, the fanatical criminals in control of Japan would have cavalierly thrown away the lives of the entire population. The Japanese warmongers were intending to use children with grenades strapped to their tiny bodies as human bombs against American soldiers - making Japanese children legitimate military threats and targets. Just as on numerous islands already liberated by the Americans, those Japanese civilians unwilling or unable to fight would be "helped" to commit "suicide" by their own soldiers.

Without the atomic bombs, it would likely have been necessary and appropriate for every human in Japan to die one way or another in order to stop their barbarism. Without the atomic bombs, the only question facing every Japanese was whether they would be killed by Americans defending civilization, or at the blood soaked hands of their own psychotic military. Without the atomic bombs there wouldn't be any revisionist Japanese historians left alive to compound the obscenities of the past with their lies of today.

Japan's own conduct during WWII eliminates any right to complain about the means their intended victims used to defend their lives and liberty from an arrogant and barbaric attacker. The rights of criminals must never be held superior to those of their intended victims. Those who managed to survive the atomic bombings deserve no more sympathy than their laughing sons and husbands showed for the crying Chinese babies impaled on their Japanese bayonets.

Rather than attempting to further damage their intended victims by recasting them as the villains of Japanese pseudo-history, the survivors should be eternally grateful that those who finally put a stop to decades of Japanese atrocities were so infinity more civilized than the Japanese baby killers themselves. Perhaps the world would be a better place today if the Japanese had been subjected to their own definition of justice by their millions of victims. The Japanese of today have certainly not learned any meaningful lessons from their appalling past.