Winning the Peace - What Dr. Seuss Taught Us About Occupying Japan Could Apply to the Middle East - and America
Yes - Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel really teamed up with Elmo Williams and made a propaganda short film "Our Job in Japan" from 1945-1946. This short film was made right after WWII for the US troops occupying Japan. It's 17 minutes long but it offers an interesting perspective - not only on how America felt just after World War II, but also on how to win the peace, on how to understand your former enemies, on how to relate to foreign people, and on how to change their way of thinking. Some view it as the lesser known companion piece made for US troops - "Your Job in Germany."
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This short film formed the basis for "Dr. Seuss's" 1947 Oscar-winning film, “Design For Death.” The film was seen by many as too sympathetic to the Japanese people and General Douglas MacArthur worked to suppress it. But what that really means is that it portrayed former enemies as human beings with brains just like ours - as human beings who had been conditioned by their culture and government to believe that they were a superior race created for the purpose of ruling the world. Japanese Imperialists had spent many years taking over the Shinto religion (re-establishing it as Japan's national state religion - with some new military propaganda worked in) and the educational system - to raise and train a young army of devout believers who would be willing to fight and die for the empire. The job of American occupation forces was to convert the defeated followers of a militarist state into peaceful, productive members of a democracy. John Dower gave a detailed discussion of the film in his book: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
As the West is forced to deal with Islamic terrorism and Iranian nuclear weapons and ISIS and the idea that Islam and Sharia law endow followers with a form of superiority and an Allah-given right to dominate the world - anyone interested in opposing Islam's domination of the world would benefit from the lessons taught in this short film about occupying postwar Japan.
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I can't help but think of my comments on Postwar America as the Bible's Mystery Babylon - and US occupation of former enemies coming to an end very soon. As I wrote in:
Antichrist 2016-2019: Mystery Babylon, Barack Obama & the Islamic Caliphate
"No nation had ever dominated the world like postwar America, nor has any other nation used its power so often. Jeremiah 25:11-12 may have a very interesting parallel for this: “nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation.” Postwar America has occupied the defeated enemies of WWII. Germany and Japan in particular have been economic powerhouses, producing high-quality merchandise for American consumers. World War II ended with the American occupation of these countries in 1945. Will American economic dominance and the economic servitude of former enemies end about 70 years later, around 2015?"
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn (author of The Harbinger and The Shemitah) predicts economic collapse around September 13, 2015 because it is the 29th day of the Hebrew month of Elul, and bad things happen economically on Elul 29 in a seven year cycle, including the crash of September 2008 (to the day) and September 11, 2001. Ten cycles back, we have the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945 - the same week (but not the exact day) of Elul 29.
Jim Rickards, the CIA economics analyst famous for "Project Prophecy" - predicts economic collapse in 2015. So Do Jim Willie, Gerald Celente, and many other financial analysts, many of which are mentioned in the article at http://www.infowars.com/11-predictions-of-economic-disaster-in-2015-from-top-experts-all-over-the-globe/
The last of the four "Blood Moons" - the tetrad of total lunar eclipses lining up with major Jewish holidays - occurs in September 2015. Operation Jade Helm finishes in September. The many WalMarts simultaneously closed for six months of "plumbing repairs" reopen in September. Will September mark the collapse of Postwar America as Mystery Babylon?
Antichrist 2016-2019: Mystery Babylon, Barack Obama & the Islamic Caliphate