Before I comment on Miss Donaldson's speech, let me refer you to this essay by the daughter of a veteran. In brief, Bryher Scudamore grew up in fear of her father, but realised after watching a film (presumably fictitious) that her father's bad behaviour was the result of the terrible things he experienced during his time as a prisoner of war. I have three points to make in reply.
First, I suspect that the Japanese treated their POWs far less harshly than the Allied troops in western Europe who operated General Eisenhower's extermination camps.
Second, bad behaviour is bad behaviour, and trying to excuse it by reference to supposed events in the past could be construed as idiotic.
I will leave my third point until I have considered the speech by Flight Sergeant Donaldson.
She argues that Britain entered the Second World War for its
own interests. Britain entered the
Second World War in defence of genocide.
Jews were murdering Germans in Poland, Germany invaded Poland in a bid
to protect innocent human life, and Britain went to war in order to allow the Jewish
atrocities to continue. We fought on the
same side as France and the Soviet Union - led by Stalin.
Following the war, France proceeded to murder huge numbers of
people in Algeria, Stalin continued to murder huge numbers of people in the
Soviet Union, and Jewish terrorists were allowed to create the terror state of
Israel. Does Miss Donaldson really
believe that this international murder-fest was in Britain’s interests?
She argues also that wars happen because no country is willing to put down their arms first. Perhaps she does not know that the invasion of Iraq did not happen until after the Iraqi government had given up its most terrifying weapons. It is perhaps strange that she complains about the slow reaction of the United Nations to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, but does not mention the use of chemical weapons by the terrorist USA against Iraqi civilians. The difference of course is that the murderous scum of the US military really do use chemical weapons, whereas the Syrian army does not. Any chemical weapons deployed in Syria are supplied to rebel forces from outside the country.
The main reason the world is not at peace is because of
three terrorist nations – Israel, the United States of America, and the United
Kingdom. The fact that our parliament
has not voted for war against Syria is merely because the British people are
currently suffering from a bout of war fatigue.
I am confident however that we will soon recover. Syria is as I write exporting its chemical
weapons. I confidently expect that once it no longer has those
weapons, the USA will find a reason to invade, and the British government will
try to persuade parliament to send in British troops as well.
Maybe Miss Donaldson will be among the dead when Britain
eventually invades Syria.
My final point regarding the essay by Bryher Scudamore is that the British POWs who allegedly suffered terrible abuse at the hands of their Japanese captors were all volunteers. They may not have had a choice about joining the forces, but they could have opted to join the Non-Combatant Corps. (Were members of the NCC ever deployed in war zones? I presume not.) It is true that NCCs were sometimes barred from certain premises, but that is presumably not as bad as having to build a railway.
I am also a volunteer. I choose to be despised by warmongering scum. I do not choose to build a railway.
My many previous posts on related subjects include:
Questions for the warmonger Gove
A reasoned approach to war
Update: a comment on this post on another site reads: My late father in law was a prisoner of the Japanese from the fall of Singapore until the end of the war. He was an honourable and honest man. If one former POW was capable of not abusing his family, then what excuse was there for Douglas Mitchell (the father of Bryher Scudamore) to abuse his family?
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