Comments on: History Is (Re)Written By The Winners

By: Next93

Next93 — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:23:15 +0000

Even the Emperor’s insistence wasn’t enough for some officers. I understand that one group of officers tried to stage a coup det’a to prevent the Emperor’s radio message from going out. They were thwarted by a blackout triggered by an air raid, and the officers leading the coup comitted suicide (some might actually have performed the sepuku ritual).

By: Warrior

Warrior — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:34:12 +0000

did your daughter’s social studies “educator” need? Signed statements by everyone on the homeislands that they would fight to the end?

Indeed, the militarists in Japan were still not willing to surrender even after the nuclear bombs were used. The Emperor himself had to INSIST on surrender before they would give up th ghost.

Social stidies propaganda is that every issue is reducible to race.

By: ColdWarrior

ColdWarrior — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:31:40 +0000

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:23:30 +0000

I can’t write as well as you, but I do think well lol. Use it whenever you want.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:20:47 +0000

be using it!

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:16:57 +0000

I see it in the same terms. And if you love something “for what it could be”, then you don’t love it at all.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:16:34 +0000

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:16:02 +0000

Quite frankly, coming from you, that is quite devastatingly honest. I used to be Dem party official for 18 years, and I got to where I just couldn’t abide their lack of empathy for my country and I will never forgive nor forget their bushlied era.

By: David Hinz

David Hinz — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:02:12 +0000

Conservatives love this country for what it IS, what it stands for, the greatness that created this nation in the first place.

Liberals love this nation for the utopia they believe they can turn it into, if only they can get complete control of people’s lives.

Just like marriage — men marry women hoping they will never change (mostly they do) while women marry men hoping they can change them into their ideal husband.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:53:45 +0000

must deal with, i.e. that the Dem Party is the DEFAULT position of a large majority due to the history of this country. Therefore, we have to give people a reason to switch from default.

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:48:14 +0000

Stuart Smalley could not have said it better. I simpler and more concise description is that the left doesn’t know jack about history and what they do know is that they are supposed to blame America first. I wanted to be fair with you, but this is absurd. You are are among bright people here, you can’t call us dumb without getting bitch slapped.

By: McKinley

McKinley — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:43:26 +0000

meet people who disagree with you. Talk with them, not to them, and you’ll find most Democrats are politically liberal, but that politcally liberal is not synonmous with anti-American or hated of country, as you seem to be implying.

Don’t take the worst five percent of Obama supporters and assume they are representative of the whole group. Associating Ward Churchill with Obama is nonsense, as you probably know. Claiming these ads are emblematic of liberal thought on our nation’s past is equally unsubstantiated. Some people on the other side think this way, most do not.

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:41:30 +0000

he is the mainstream of the party leadership and those who fund the party. there are still a lot of joe blows that are Democrat for no good reason and don’t follow politics, such as union guys.

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:39:44 +0000

of course it does lost of crazy things like “rank” weapons in different time periods, and for different uses, but look at the crap everyone else is putting on?

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:37:18 +0000

are happy when the masses are exposed to any real history at all. Don’t be a bore, the only thing worse than a history guy constantly carping during a historical show is a gun guy going on and on about the ridiculous mistakes in Hollywood gunplay.

disclaimer, I am both and have done both many times, so this is criticism from friends. I still stand behind it, better the History Channel than The View, Idol, or Sex in the City imho.

By: Next93

Next93 — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:24:22 +0000

My daugher had a social studies teacher at a Catholic high school who claimed that the beleif that the Japanese population would have fought to the last living soul is a racist conceit. He simply wouldn’t accept the fact that all available evidence at the time (or even today) indicates the exact opposite.

The only reason I didn’t pull my daughter out of the class was that she did such a good job of contracticting him in class. My father was stationed on the Phillipenes, staging for the invasion of the home islands. He told me once that the slogan of his unit was “Golden Gate by ‘68″; they fully expected another 20+ years of war, and when I asked him if they expected to be coming home or retreating by ‘68, he said it was about 50-50.

By: Warrior

Warrior — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:33:49 +0000

innocent of left wing propoganda or motives as one might think. Or maybe I’m just a misinformed member of the vast right wing extremist conspiracy.

Having said that, however, I couldn’t help notice that yesterday morning when the home-grown Muslim Terrorist story was popping, the Hist Chan was conveniently showcasing a tired rehashing of the KKK’s history. Coincidence I’m sure. (Funny, I don’t remember Robert Byrd’s name being mentioned.)

Maybe JaNap should issue an “intelligence product” which covers how disgruntled malcontents in prison are vulnerable to being “radicalized” by Islamic extremists in prison…

BTW, Caleb, great article! (Or whatever one calls stories on the internet…I’m sure I’m way behind the times.)

By: Warrior

Warrior — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:13:26 +0000

the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings weren’t standing in a heaving Higgins boat, wearing a 70 lbs rucksack, carrying an M-1 rifle and ticking off the things they would likely never get to do with their 18 year old lives…

Critics of the bombings should read a history book. The Japanese fought almost to the last man to save several pieces of volcanic rock in the central and south Pacific. How much fiercer would they have fought for their own homeland? And forget about Japanese casualties. American casualties predicted to invade the home islands were estimated at close to a million…

By: juumanistra

juumanistra — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:59:55 +0000

With Curtis LeMay’s bombers waiting the wings for Operations Coronet, Olympia, and beyond, the death tolls of the Japanese would have easily run into the hundreds of thousands had the war bled into 1946. (If not more, at the that: LeMay, after all, argued against the use of the atomic bomb because it was insufficiently destructive and a massive diversion of resources that could better be spent on strategic firebombing.)

By: Aaron Gardner

Aaron Gardner — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:17:19 +0000

absolutely exceptional!!