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Any time you see an article discrediting China from the Western press, like this one, try this:

Replace the text "China", with "US". What's remarkable is that the story rarely changes. Every undemocratic, evil-doing charge leveled by Western media at China is happening in the West as well.

I'm well aware that it pays to villainize China in the press today. I assume they've made too much of our stuff or something, and now they're trying to be free of Western dominance or some heresy like that.

Ohh! You evil China! Trying to be free of Western dominion!

Iraq II re-destroyed Baghdad and destroyed the city center Falluja. An estimated 655,000 civilians were dead by 2006 and another 2,000,000 displaced. The standard procedure of targeting civilians is still the central strategy.

http://apjjf.org/-Mark-Selden/1943/article.html

Here is an excellent analysis of American high school textbooks and their handling of the war with Japan.

It's pretty clear that Americans do in fact censure what is taught.

The US started targeting defenseless civilians in Japan via fire bombing, and the majority of the Japan's cities had already been destroyed by the time they deployed the atomic bombs. The attacks on civilians in Japan were the first examples of what is now standard procedure in the air force, now known as "strategic bombing".

Mark Selden, a researcher at Cornell University, wrote an excellent article detailing this: http://apjjf.org/-Mark-Selden/2414/article.html

He points out how the attacks on civilians in Dresden, for example, were met with shock by Europeans at the time. But the Americans never reacted as strongly to the same bombings in Japan.

Several cities of civilians were destroyed in the Korean War. In Vietnam city bombins and chemical weapons were deployed against civilians. Carpet bombing was the term for targeting civilians in Iraq I. Etc etc etc. It's all basically the same.

I had the same interpretation.

I noted that he still (understandably) doesn't forgive the Japanese, but that could be entirely separate from the decision to use atomic weapons against civilians.