From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Subject: Re: Who was 'tricked'?(Re: An Open Letter to...)
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:57:16 GMT

In article <9208202212.AA08853@nero.wustl.edu> dickhoff@NERO.WUSTL.EDU writes:
>
>In article <92Aug20.101620edt.135@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu) writes:
>
>Well said.  It seems today many Chinese don't know what was real attitude
>of West towards the invasion of China by Japanese before Pearl Harbour. 
>Look, even today some West people are so indifferent towards Japanese's 
More than "indifferent". They only use Japan's invasion of China to attack
Japan when they try to bash Japan. and They use Japanese Atrocity to
belittle China often! Talk about the atrocity delightfully, graphically!
>atrocity to Chinese people in WWII, WHAT makes some of Chinese folks think 
>U.S. as well as other Western nations were on the Chinese side before Pearl
>Harbor?
>
>Lao Mao once "thanked" some Japanese for the revival of CCP by the Japanese
>invasion in China.  Stupid Mao "thanked" the wrong persons.  If he really
>wanted to "thank" somebody, he should "thank" Hitler.  It was Hitler who 
>screwed up the whole Western world just to the right point that Nazi
>German itself also got screwed up.  It was not that bad for all opressed
>nations. Of course, had Hitler won the war, the world would have become
>a hell.  But with Hitler's screwing up, the whole world has to reshuffle.
>That was what the oppressed nations wanted.
>
>Without Hitler, many nations would still remain colonies even today. Without
  and Red Soviet!
>Hitler, the world would not be like as today.  Without Hitler, Lao Mao would
>spend the rest of his life in caves in YanAn.  I admit these words are not
>political correct; but that is what I honestly feel.
>
>Today some Japanese say they were "tricked" into WWII.  In fact, they don't
>mean they were "tricked" into Sino-Japan war; they only mean that Japan was
>"tricked" into Pacific War.  These words reflects a popular sentiments
>among today's Japanese people that had Japanese stayed out of WWII,
>just like Spanish fascist dictator Franco, they could have well kept
>at least Taiwan, Korean and Manchuria under their control.  
>Now are you folks, Chinese and Korean, aware of this?
>
>And besides, at first glance, the word "tricked" seems to make some sense.
>For a rational person, it seems irrational that a small country like Japan
>would ever attack a mighty giant country like U.S..
>
>Wrong!  Ambitious Japanese imperialists were not rational; they were 
Before Pearl Harbor, Japan only had 1 month oil reserve,  West cut off
oil supply!
>actually gambler. At the end of 1941, Nazi German's troop had advanced
>to as far as to the suburban of Moscow. It seemed to Japanese imperialists
>that Russia was on the verge of collapse.  Had Russia been finished, there
>was no doubt that the next target of Hitler would have been U.S.   With
>the whole European continent under the control, many people tended to 
>believe that Nazi German could beat U.S., presumbly U.S.  had not had 
>A-bomb.  
Nazi A-bomb program were much advanced than any bodyelse, because the
intensity of the War with British, shortage of fund, Hitlar stopped the
program!
>
>Unlike "coward" Mussolini, who stabed France on the back only after Nazi 
>German entered Paris, "brave" Japanese sneak attacked Pearl Harbour just
>before the time at which Japanese imperialists thought that Hitler was
>going to take care of U.S.  So at the final victorious day of Axis countries
>conquerring the world, Japanese imperialists could "proudly" say they
>had contributed as much as Nazi German had in this "glorious" cause
>of conquerring the world.
>
>Fortunately to the people loving freedom, Russia didn't collapse; and
>the trend of the war turned against Axis.  Japanese imperialists
>found they lost the gamble. And they lost all they had conquered since
>later last century and this is very good to the people in other East
>Asia nations.
>
>Today some Japanese try very hard to cover this real essence of Japanese 
>motivation of sneak attacking Pearl Harbour.  They whine all the time
>that Japanese was "tricked" into Pacific War?  And then Who will buy this?
KMT were so stupid to retreat from North-East CHina, for the purpose to
let Soviet fight Japan! KMT should have united with Soviet, send Chinese
labor to Soviet which had sever labor shortage for weapen production, and
inexhange for Soviet to supply Weapean to China! China should be able to
kick Japan without late_copming weaponary help from U.S.
>
>_________________
>
>T.T.Wu


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