Because That Would Be Monstrous

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From Gideon Rose’s How Wars End, on U.S. public opinion toward Japan in 1944:

In response to a December 1944 poll asking “what do you think we sould do with Japan as a country after the war?” 13 percent of Americans wanted to “kill all Japanese” and 33 percent wanted to destroy Japan as a political entity. The poll’s comparable question on Germany did not even include the first option.

Of course it didn’t. Because killing all Germans? That would be monstrous. 

And while the Japanese did commit war crimes, to the best of my knowledge, they didn’t have death camps like Germany.  So, are we lame, or what?