In Reply to: Re: Perhaps you need more than "some" context posted by jamesgarvin on June 22, 2006 at 16:01:19:
Stop digging.Your words: "The Japanese military culture indoctrinated their soldiers to believe that surrender was cowardly, and so the prisoners were viewed as cowards, not deserving to live." That is clearly not a judgment, but a fact, and explains, to a large extent, why the Japanese treated prisoners like they did."
Quite clearly "not a judgement". Your original explanation of the deaths of 10,000 is not only nonjudgemental, but goes some distance in rationalizing the Japaneses command's decision as a logical solution to a distribution problem. And you proceed to do it a second time in your response.
In your review post you say "...the Bataan Death March, which was really marching the prisoners of war to various camps". I disagree and believe it was really an act of monumental barbarity.
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