Should racism dictate foreign policy debate in Congress?

I just read an interesting article in The Guardian: "Second world war 'sex slaves' to testify before Congress".

On the face of it, there's nothing wrong with a Congressional initiative to invite victims of World War II war crimes to speak on the globally visible platform of Congress, so as to shame Japanese politicos, into unequivocally and wholehearted addressing of several painfully shameful stains on Japan's public image - all related to World War II. I say addressing, also and not in the least in reference to the fairly broad domestic indifference resulting, not surprisingly, in broad ignorance in Japan itself to the immense scale of (and subsequent whitewash) of horrible crimes against humanity committed by Imperial Japan. Schoolbooks hardly deal with that unpleasant historic reality, and tend to gingerly refer instead to regretful and tragic events, taking place against the backdrop of an overall horrible war. The situation isn't helped of course with the annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance rituals, which in effect pull the wool over our eyes, distracting from atrocities such as the Rape of Nanjing, Unit 731, and the forced sexual exploitation of many tens of thousands of captured women. To name just a few salient cases. At any rate, one thing doesn't and oughtn't obfuscate the other, but sadly and in effect it does.

That's why I think that te forced prostitution of many thousands captured women by the Japanese Imperial armed forces is a bitterly apt poster case, to advocate for public acknowledgment by the Japanese political leadership, beyond mealy-mouthed and hardly credible expressions of "regret".

But here's my problem with this initiative in Congress, almost passingly mentioned in the third paragraph of that article in The Guardian:



Petty retaliation, is that the moral foundation of this seemingly bipartisan initiative?

So, one deliberately inflicted and ongoing enterprise which blindly rages on, ravaging the lives of many Iraqis isn't worthy a thorough debate, but ho boy when someone abroad -- damn furners! -- dares criticize that imperial war against common sense and decency!

So, how many Democrats and exactly which ones are endorsing this essentially racist cover-up of their own incompetence to force a debate, to force thorough scrutiny of the war in Iraq, by pointing in another convenient direction and accusing some other government of having a log in its eyes?

What a horrendous and shameful insult to the women they're bringing in to perform to their amusement.