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I would point out that there are surviving comfort women to this day and Japanese politicians *are* morally culpable for their current-day actions, which include calling those survivors liars to their faces, and levying international political pressure against even private memorials to said...

1. The French don't need to be Communist to be "left to hang". It was not even remotely in the best interest of the United States to support France; therefore we should not have. 2. The Viet Minh resistance as a whole was not a Communist movement; many of its notable figures were Communist to...

I've argued before that America should have simply done the smart *and* practical thing by telling France to piss off and count itself lucky that it wasn't being made to pay punitive damages for being an Axis power.

The difference is that South Vietnam was an inherently artificial puppet regime which had little to no legitimacy in the eyes of the Vietnamese people and was only ever maintained by external force. How do you even define "favorable terms" in this context? The United States could have achieved...

Vietnam didn't have an Emperor? That would be news to my several-times-great-grandfather. And no, the United States was at no point "stuck" in Vietnam. The United States was there by choice and could leave at any moment it pleased.

For "lesser" war crimes like . . . unrestricted submarine warfare, those are clearly . But stuff like the Holocaust and the atrocities the Japanese actually pulled? There's a lot of those that go well into the territory that pretty much everyone can agree is pretty bad shit. Yes, except I made...

Hirohito was little more than a figurehead as far as day to day government decisions, but he also had *nearly absolute* authority in principle; that's why he was ultimately able to make the decision to surrender and make it stick. On the other hand, the Allies' decision to retain Hirohito...

The incredibly broad and widespread Japanese military performance of atrocities and civilian celebrating of those same atrocities both stem from intentional, large-scale brainwashing of their entire society for decades on end. The Japanese educational system became more and more centralized...