Yes, Rog, it is well remembered by me, and it serves to further illustrate my point, which is that all empires behave brutally toward innocent people who happen to get in their way...or whom they even think might get in their way someday...

Note the USA's treatment of Iraq in the last few years.

The reason I get tired of hearing only about the evil done a long time ago by Japanese or Nazis is this: it's too easy a target. It's a cliche by now. And it is used to focus people's hatred upon the past and keep them obsessed with that, so that they do not pay proper attention to present evils of a similar nature, much closer to home, emanating directly out of their own society and its leaders.