Larry Bernard

Lots of American troops wanted to make Japan suffer when they landed at Tokyo Bay in September of 1945. A lot of these troops had been in since the attack at Pearl. And all that hatred faded away when they actually saw the state of the Japanese people when they started to occupy the mainland. It wasn't the hatred of Communism that leftists always claim it was. It was the "basic human empathy" that leftists ALSO always talk about but wouldn't know what that was if it walked up and slapped them in their faces. The first thing America realized they had to do for the occupation of Japan was to ship in food, immediately. And that's what we did. If America had been a godless, leftist nation at the occupation, they would have made the Japanese starve and suffer further because leftist politics are grievance politics. Always crying about equity and reparations and gibmedats. And would you look at that, Japan is now, militarily, the second most powerful nation on the planet and the third most powerful economy. And they're the only ally we have at the moment. And that's okay by us.