Clint's New Hat

by Warren Kozak - February 23, 2007 - The New York Sun

Most people today do not realize that there were really two Holocausts of World War II. There was the one perpetrated by the Germans against the Jews. The lesser known one was committed by the Japanese against the Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, and Vietnamese.

In this second Asian Holocaust, 17 million humans, most of them noncombatants, were slaughtered in ways not used since medieval times. These victims were exterminated by imposed starvation, slave labor, and brutal executions by Japanese soldiers.

This is an excellent article pointing out Hollywood's savage indifference to brutality committed by anyone who is not an American patriot. American patriots are the only people Hollywood accepts it is politically correct to condemn. Clint Eastwood has joined the liberal elite in whitewashing any group that can pretend they are just innocent victims of America. The lesson of Iwo Jima is that the Japanese people would fight to the death, giving their lives in glorious tribute to their country, even when it was their country that had started the war and executed millions with barbaric evil. However that is not the lesson of Clint Eastwood's film.

Clint Eastwood tries to make the case the Japanese were simply victims of American agression, sitting on their island helplessly waiting to die at the hands of the American attackers. He claims the Japanese were forced to fight for their nation and bear no responsibility for the acts of brutal savagery that were committed during the war by their side.

This kind of rewiting of history is in its own way a form of contemptible savagery. It stamps Clint Eastwood a barbaric and ignorant man. No matter how well made the film is, this story is a complete lie. That Eastwood directed it proves he is as evil as the former Japanese culture he obscures.

America is not evil for having defeated the Japanese Empire. Eastwood is evil for lying about what we did and why we did it.