Street Juice
Platinum Member
Years ago I often heard Japan criticized for insufficiently apologizing for its role in World War II, the terrible things it did in Korea and China, the Rape of Nanking, torture and murder of POWs, etc. I was in agreement with these criticisms.
As I watched what was happening in my own nation, with constant discussion of America’s sins, which could never be put behind us and absolutely never forgiven, I came to respect the Japanese approach. For a nation, as for an individual, it is unhealthy to spend an inordinate amount of time dwelling on your flaws and past sins. Psychologically, it destroys you.
And then I realized that that was the whole point: not to make us a better people, but simply to destroy us.
As I watched what was happening in my own nation, with constant discussion of America’s sins, which could never be put behind us and absolutely never forgiven, I came to respect the Japanese approach. For a nation, as for an individual, it is unhealthy to spend an inordinate amount of time dwelling on your flaws and past sins. Psychologically, it destroys you.
And then I realized that that was the whole point: not to make us a better people, but simply to destroy us.