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Originally Posted by valo403
Maybe re-read the first part, where he points out that there is very little in terms of absolute fact when it comes to the things being discussed here. Kind of hard to refute things when someone has decided it is factual, when in reality it is a mixture of loose facts and opinion spun to paint a picture that is to the liking of the particular audience. Treating things in this realm as if they are black and white is naive, there is a whole lot of grey area.
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When tens of millions are dead, it's not very grey. It's very much black and white.
The grey area is the how and the why of it, the new battleground for those seeking to shape history to their satisfaction or political position.
An article on "The Suicide Order of 1945" on Okinawa and the controversy over re-writing history to suit nationalists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/20/wo...20iht-oki.html
Cowperson