| The treaty definition as used in the above article for pre-OLYMPIC American war planning, while technically correct, is missing one significant variable - that such actions was NOT ROUTINE, or DETERMINATIVELY SUBORNED, as official US policy. Adolf Hitler and cronies in their superhomogenous ideology did not have to engage in the policy of the Holocaust/Final Solution against civilian Jews and other ethnic groups of Europe, just as Josef Stalin was not forced to engage in the similarly horrific policy of forced
"collectivization" of Russians and Russian-controlled ethnics, exclusive of his infamous intraparty and military "purges". The Japanese samurai code, whose original traditions made it dishonorable for an armed samurai to kill an nonsamurai, was perverted over time so that it became possible for Japanese soldiers before and during WW2 to kill innocent civilians and bound Allied prisoners with impunity, or to use these as guinea pigs for biowar and chemwar medical experiments. The US intent in warfighting, as like any country, is to WIN ITS WAR AT A MINIMUM OF CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE TO ITSELF! I personally do not view any potential usage of poison gas by the US to minimize its overall level of battle casualties as genocide, certainly NOT on the same scale or intent as a matter of overt or covert policy as the Holocaust, collectivization, and Japanese bayonet practice on bound civilians, etc.
FYI, my home island of Guam was used by the USAAFs
as storage depot for scores of tens of thousands of mustard and chlorine gas for use in OLYMPIC, with plans for all of the airfields in the Marianas to be massively upgraded in terms of area and number of based bombers. Airbases in the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa were also planned for use in OLYMPIC. Also FYI, local news has reported that during Korea up to 35 nuclear bombs were delivered to Guam's AFB, for use in defense of the PUSAN PERIMETER, and later for possible use against mainland CHINA, all this at a time when Prez Truman was allegedly concerned about MacArthur's plans, and about containing the conflict to just the Korean Peninsula! As Prez Truman should have known about these bombs - do we admire him and US war planners for preparing for a worst case scenario and wanting to save US lives, or do we criticize them for daring to risk using highly dangerous, but immediately available, American technology and methodisms that can kill millions at a shot! That was, and is, WAR! |
