You make some rather stunning leaps about a complete stranger. The number of factual and assumptive errors are nearly breathtaking. Almost as if what you really desire is to simply place me on the defensive and shut down the entire conversation. How very jewish of you. And entirely mistaken. 1) "They did, they assumed we would go to war and fight with honor." No they did not. Because if you knew anything at all about Japanese culture you would know that they assumed that as gaijin, we not only have *no* honor, but are in fact incapable of even *understanding* the concept. 2) "But thanks to 'men' like you who think burning children alive as a legitimate act of war..." First, I was not there. Second, I have never burned children alive in my life, nor have I ever approved of it. I repeat, war is a horrible thing. In modern, industrialized conflict, there is no difference between the military deployed in direct combat, and the civilian population that works in the factories that support them. It is all one. It is easy to see that you have no direct experience with it , for if you had, you would already know it to be true and thus requiring no explanation. All the wishing in the world for it to be otherwise will not make that so. I can only conclude that you are of the sort who would have simply given up, accepted defeat, apologized to Japan, and done nothing at all. I am not at all surprised, as there seems to be rather a lot of that going around these days.