tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post6596480629563714000..comments2024-01-20T11:56:48.682+01:00Comments on WindRose Hotel: 'We wanted to annihilate the Japanese because they were different'S.R. Piccolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622464895435470724noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-37150925326893456852010-03-15T16:46:34.770+01:002010-03-15T16:46:34.770+01:00He must be either insane or extremely ignorant.......He must be either insane or extremely ignorant.....Ann Henriksennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-55830407423643101662010-03-15T15:34:31.748+01:002010-03-15T15:34:31.748+01:00P.S. Rob, your sarcasm is legendary... :-)P.S. Rob, your sarcasm is legendary... :-)Helen Butlerhttp://twitter.com/forever__freenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-76145911763761627462010-03-15T15:33:12.288+01:002010-03-15T15:33:12.288+01:00This is what Tom Hanks said:
'Asked if they e...This is what Tom Hanks said:<br /><br />'Asked if they expect “The Pacific” to resonate with viewers when it comes to the conflicts America faces today, Hanks responded quickly.<br />“We want it to resonate completely,” he said. “The war in the Pacific was a war of terror and racism, of suicide attacks.Both sides viewed the other side as being subhuman dogs, from a civilization that didn’t recognize the advancement of human kind.<br />“Sound familiar? Sound like something that might be going on?” he asked, referring to the U.S.-Middle Eastern conflict."'<br /><br />Tom Hanks is an idiot. The Japanese attacked us. What doesn't he get about that? He's just a mindless progressive who wants to blame the U.S. for everything. I've admired Hanks because of his work to get the war memorial, et al. But this kind of silliness reminds me that even a broken clock is right twice a day.Helen Butlerhttp://twitter.com/forever__freenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-44518422849808847212010-03-15T13:54:43.429+01:002010-03-15T13:54:43.429+01:00On the same subject I recently saw an old black an...On the same subject I recently saw an old black and white film (1950) by Jean Negulesco "Captives à Borneo". About a prison camp detaining English women and children commanded by a cultured and gentlemanly Japanese officer. One of the women prisoners is a writer, whose books the Japanese officer has read and admired.<br /><br />At the time of the Japanese surrender, he hears that this wife and all his children were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He nevertheless sees four of the boys of the women prisoners scrounging for food, and offers to take them to place outside the camp where he has them served with everything that they could wish for.<br /> <br />Considering the time the film was made, it strikes me as an astonishing example of what sometimes in war is a reality that at such a period most people would prefer to ignore, at least until feelings of hate and animosity have been sufficiently tempered.Mirinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-65847797642967220852010-03-15T11:07:16.697+01:002010-03-15T11:07:16.697+01:00Perhaps Tom Hanks made such a sweeping statement w...Perhaps Tom Hanks made such a sweeping statement with tongue in cheek.<br />But unfortunately, there may well have been some truth in it.<br />Today there may still be. The animal instinct still latent in us, especially during periods of war, nurtures a deep distrust for, and fear of, those who are 'different'. This might explain the ultra simple reasoning of 'if you're not with us, you're against us'.<br />This by extension would be, 'if you don't share or respect our values, then you must be our enemy'.<br />But assuming that this is still a part of human nature, then such 'enemies' might be far less tolerant, even with their own kind, their own families and their own children.Mirinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.com