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Carl

The Japanese at the time treated non Japanese like vermin and did what ever they wanted to do with them. This behavior has been documented many times. Using the local female populace as sex slaves would fall into their way of treating the people.

The main issue here is one of face, you looses and who wins. As long as the Koreans can bring this up and get the Japanese government to give them something, this will never stop.

One thing I did learn in Korea, is that if they feel they have been wronged, they will keep it up until a person looses face and rub their noses in it every chance they get. This usually applies if the opponet is not a Korean. We all have seen this happen many times over the years.

Over all a good article.

The point of the posting was to say it absurd for South Korea to claim some kind of moral superiority over Japan because of the comfort women issue. Both South Korea and China have no room to talk when it comes to moral superiority for the various reasons I mentioned.

Your attempts to bring up America is typical of unobjective Korea apologists. If you want to defend Korea’s moral superiority over Japan as claimed then please give examples because I would love to hear them?

Besides that, as Americans it would be hypocritical for us to call them morally bankrupt for focusing on one problem when there are bigger fish to fry. Look at the Taliban–we’ve known they were a bunch of turban wearing assholes since the day they took power, but we didn’t do anything about it till they gave us a black eye. We attack Iraq, something they were thoroughly asking for, but not North Korean or Iran, two countries who if anything hate us more, and have bigger weapons. I expected that sort of bitching from a liberal hippy type, but not from someone in active service. You should know as well as I do that in the real world, people don’t have infinite time and resources, and sometimes your only choices are to attack one problem and ignore the rest for a while, and do a little good, or to try to take on everything at once and accomplish nothing. So the guys trying to stop crime in Compton might seem like they’re doing nothing when you think about genocide in Darfur, but they’re still a lot less useless than the jerks on the sideline deriding their work.

And whatever the real facts are–I don’t presume to have done the investigative legwork to know with any certainty, any more than you have–how does the complicity of a few Koreans matter? When slavery was allowed in this country, we got our slaves from two sources–white slavers who’d capture people in Africa to sell, and black slavers who would capture people from other tribes and sell them to foreign traders who didn’t want to do their own dirty work? Whether they were kidnapped by “evil foreigners” or “fellow Africans” seems like a ridiculous detail for you to fixate, because the slaves themselves didn’t consent, and either way they ended up being forced to work, beaten, raped, possibly killed, and at our hands.

My biggest problem with this post is the implicit assumption of collective responsibility and acceptance of stereotyping. You say that 50 years ago, a few Koreans decided to line their own pockets and help the Japanese, therefore no Korean today is allowed to condemn anything the Japanese might have done, ever. It’s like saying that the U.S. has no right to go fight the terrorists because a few white kids decided to go convert to the Osama fan club.

I mean, look at your own post: You, an American GI, attack the NY Times, and American paper, for its glaring problems, yet you don’t see yourself as a hypocrit. In this case, you’re smart enough realize that even though you’re both Americans, you’re not morally responsible for the crap the NY Times spews, yet when you’re talking about Koreans, you seem to believe that if some Korean girl is grabbed off the streets and sold by a fellow Korean, it somehow implies her personal consent, no matter how much she protests or tries to get away when the Japanese use her. Hrm, judging other races by different standards than your own, treating them as a collective instead of individuals, that sounds familiar…