Ah, I'm too late to the party as usual. Re Macca, not interested and wish he would go away. But on what seems to me the other racial issue that has been raised:
Atrocities aside (Dresden, Hiroshima anyone?), dig deeper and you will find how Japan in 1848 was forced to open its society by Admiral Dewey and aspire to be "Western" (and forced to cede an island called Iwo Jima). The Japanese realized to be western meant to subjugate and COLONIZE, so they did. Because they were not a white race, we condemned their expansion while encouraging our Euro brethren to 'civilize' the yellow and black men by taking their homelands.
Was the 'pacification' of the Philippines after the Spanish American War any less brutal than the Rape of Nanjing?
As they say, history is written by the victors.