Comments on: "A Mud Hut in Manchuria": Why We Fight, Part 2 http://www.historynet.com/a-mud-hut-in-manchuria-why-we-fight-part-2.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 25 May 2013 03:21:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Woody Tanaka http://www.historynet.com/a-mud-hut-in-manchuria-why-we-fight-part-2.htm#comment-694013 Woody Tanaka Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:46:13 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684043#comment-694013 "At stake was the rule of law in the international community. If anyone can invade anyone else at any time without fear of reprisal, we no longer have a "world community," we have a kind of global jungle." Oh, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. Why were the Japanese in China in the first place? Or Korea, for that matter?? Because the "international community" permitted it. The Americans virtually gift-wrapped Korea for the Japanese, for pete's sakes. Don't forget, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (after rejecting the racial equality provision sought by the Japanese and rejected by the Euro-American (white) powers) the self-same international community gave away China's Shandong penninsula, which Imperial Germany had occupied (sorry, in which they had concessions) to the very same Japanese who would cause such troubles in Manchuria, instead of returning it rightly to the Chinese. Indeed, the international community (i.e., European colonialsts) had invaded millions of people, around the globe, for centuries -- wiping out entire peoples in the process -- without fear of reprisals. Why shouldn't the Japanese think that they, too, could get to play the imperialism game?? Because they weren't white?? No, this was more Capra propaganda. More sophisticated, perhaps, but propaganda all the same. "At stake was the rule of law in the international community. If anyone can invade anyone else at any time without fear of reprisal, we no longer have a "world community," we have a kind of global jungle."

Oh, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. Why were the Japanese in China in the first place? Or Korea, for that matter?? Because the "international community" permitted it. The Americans virtually gift-wrapped Korea for the Japanese, for pete's sakes.

Don't forget, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (after rejecting the racial equality provision sought by the Japanese and rejected by the Euro-American (white) powers) the self-same international community gave away China's Shandong penninsula, which Imperial Germany had occupied (sorry, in which they had concessions) to the very same Japanese who would cause such troubles in Manchuria, instead of returning it rightly to the Chinese.

Indeed, the international community (i.e., European colonialsts) had invaded millions of people, around the globe, for centuries — wiping out entire peoples in the process — without fear of reprisals. Why shouldn't the Japanese think that they, too, could get to play the imperialism game?? Because they weren't white??

No, this was more Capra propaganda. More sophisticated, perhaps, but propaganda all the same.

]]> By: Patrick H. http://www.historynet.com/a-mud-hut-in-manchuria-why-we-fight-part-2.htm#comment-689763 Patrick H. Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:58:53 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684043#comment-689763 As you say Capra was tasked with explaining to farm boys in small town America why they would be going overseas to kill and be killed. He know that the standard revenge Pearl Harbor was not enough. He knew he had to show that the Axis were bent on domanation of the planet. That there could be no co-exsistence with them. That the challenge they issued had to be meet. This would mean that tresaure and blood would be lost in beating this challenge back!! As you say Capra was tasked with explaining to farm boys in small town America why they would be going overseas to kill and be killed. He know that the standard revenge Pearl Harbor was not enough. He knew he had to show that the Axis were bent on domanation of the planet. That there could be no co-exsistence with them. That the challenge they issued had to be meet. This would mean that tresaure and blood would be lost in beating this challenge back!!

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