No litespeed not saying that you cannot have a view , only recently i had access to my fathers war/military records , he often spoke of his time in Burma and his recollection was that they were moving so quickly that they took no prisoners he was with General Slims army in the South Wales Borderers the Japanese were fanatical as we know and to be taken a prisoner was shameful to the soldiers of the Japanese army, so the WW11 soldiers were under great stress and probably did war crimes but were never prosecuted in large numbers , all i can say is war is terrible, civilians bear the brunt of it ,the average age of IDF soldiers is 25 years and are always under attack, I for one would not like to be in their shoes .the world has not learned at all from WW11 .WW1 was "the war to end all wars" it didn't but now we have madmen all over world trying to start WW3 ( sorry that you took offence wasnt a attack on you ) cheers gareth