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Thank you.

This article points to the fact that our open-ended defense commitments to a good number of countries is relatively exceptional. Most countries are pretty parochial in their viewpoints, and it would behoove us to keep this in mind when deciding upon a course of action during future crises, especially if the potential cost of American involvement is high.

Actually, the worst perpetrators of atrocities were the North Vietnamese. Period. 5,000 dead at Hue alone, all summarily executed and buried in mass graves. The South Vietnamese government was corrupt, but probably no more so than the Korean government. The key difference? The North Koreans weren’t able to smuggle arms or men to their sympathizers in the South, meaning there was no guerrilla war of any significance.

Some people from the Dutch East Indies were happy to see the Japanese, chiefly those who hoped to take over the Dutch empire in East Asia, such as the Javanese Muslim Suharto and Sukarno. Christian natives fought the Japanese tooth and nail, fearing that the erosion of Dutch rule would lead, not to the reversion to the independent kingdoms of the pre-Dutch era, but to the formation of a Muslim empire to rule their once independent lands. Ironically, formerly Christian kingdoms in what is now Indonesia have the Dutch (and the Japanese) to thank for their subjection to Muslim rule.

The media has nothing to do with it.

What they don??t get is the second half of the truth??that once they found out that the Japanese were just as bad, they were no longer happy.

Well, in truth, it wasn’t that the Japanese were as bad - they were far worse, perpetrating mass rapes and massacres wherever they went. The European colonial presence was relatively unobtrusive, compared to the Japanese, which required locals to bow in the presence of Japanese soldiers (or be beaten to pulp) and allowed Japanese soldiers to summarily execute locals without punishment. It was little details like this that led the locals to armed revolt, and towards summarily killing Japanese troops and mutilating their corpses upon their surrender. The ones who were tried for war crimes were the lucky ones.

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And especially Koreans need to look objectively at their own faults in creating a weak Korea.

But I would hardly blame the Koreans for “eagerly” invading Japan. Do you know how many years Koreans resisted the Mongols? If the Mongol horde puts a sword on the back of your neck and tell you to row towards Japan, I wouldn’t say that you “eagerly” attacked Japan. You also have to remember that this was a time in Korea’s history where they looked at everything coming from Japan as being inferior and Japan not being worth invading.

In fact, the only time I know when Korea ever invaded Japan was sometime around 1411 or so when Tsushima pirates massacred Korean villagers. After landing and executing Japanese pirates, the Korean force LEFT Japan, because they thought Japan(Tsushima) was worthless.

That is unless you believe that the Japanese Emperor(Yayoi culture) is of Korean ancestry and colonized the natives. Which I somehow doubt.