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As I've read it, they were treated better (American POWs) in Germany, than in Japan.POWs were treated better in America, Europe and Australia than they were by the Japanese.
As a matter of fact, Civilians are never targeted per-say... Infrastructure is targeted... It certainly isn't in the interest of nations at war to purposely target civilians.Please try to stick to the topic. When I started this thread I wanted to highlight the fact that civilians were targeted during WWII. I feel that the experiences from that time still influences the Japanese today.
I'll give you some examples, in Viet Nam, it was very difficult for the GI's to know who was an N.V.A sympathizer and who was a South Viet Nam supporter... there were causalities everywhere. If you want to know the truth, the war was conducted to undermine Communism in the south pacific, and it did that effectively (thus, I believe, the war was won... Linguist, Poli Sci writer, Noam Chomsky seems to agrees on this point, I'll add)... It was a regrettable war, with disgraced veterans returning to a country full of hippies who lionized them. It was a shame.
I do think you bring up a good point... A lot of people don't understand, know, or appreciate the damages done by incendiary bombing as compared to the two Nuclear attacks... but I don't think it's especially correct to solely blame the United States as some type of terrorist agitator.
If you'd like to get more vitriol to fuel your rage, you might look up the bombing of Dresden.