Inviting a wolf home 引 狼 入 室

There is this Chinese saying about inviting a wolf into a hen house, 引 狼 入 室. The consequences are obvious when it happened. The big question is why would people be so silly to invite a wolf home? Little Red Riding Hood did that and was nearly eaten. Why did she do it? The wolf dressed up as a grandmother, all weak, hapless and needing kindness. She was taken in, she was duped.
 
What is the moral of this story? What lesson can one learn from it? No one in his right mind would invite a wolf home, except the ‘stupidity has no cure’ type. Assuming that people are not stupid, then this kind of incident is unlikely to happen innocently. But there are conditions that could make it favourable for the innocent and naive to invite a wolf home.
 
The wolf is smart and would hide its intention. A wolf would present itself as the most cuddly sheep, with disarming charm, to dupe the innocent and unthinking that the wolf is not a wolf but a loving and trusting harmless thing. A wolf understands that, that everyone knows how vicious a wolf is and it has to make extra effort to look good, look honest, look charming, even generous and helpful. How else would a wolf pass itself off as a nice chap to be invited home to do the harm and damage if it constantly growls and shows its fangs?
 
The most vicious beast of WW2 is exactly what this wolf story is all about. The Japanese today are so nice, so disarming, so charming, so gracious, so peaceful, so helpful, how could they be a big bad wolf? Just like the Americans, but no comparison. The Japanese are really behaving very nice since their defeat in WW2. They did not want to talk about their beastly behaviour and no one would think that they were that bad. Other than the recent urge to change their pacifist constitution to allow them to remilitarise as a big military power, they have hid their aggressive intent very well. Or at least the world would were made to believe in their lies. Their so called Self Defense Force is the second most powerful, if not the most powerful war machine in Asia, an aggressive force disguised as self defence. Can that be peaceful? Why the need to disguise it as a Self Defense Force and not the Imperial Japanese Army like before? Now Abe is changing everything, to cut out the farce and to call his Self Defense Force the Imperial Japanese Army not to defend Japan but to conduct wars everywhere outside Japan, like before, like the beast it used to be.
 
I spoke about the American wolf. Think of the worst genocide ever conducted in human history, the decimation of tens of millions or more than a hundred million native Americans in a few decades of their invasion of the North American continent. And think of their casual remarks of war collateral to brush away the killings, maiming and making homeless, millions of Arabs and Muslims in their wars of invasion and regime change. And unlike the Japanese, they did not hide their aggression and war like nature. They are conducting wars everywhere, killing and wounding people, innocent people, young and old, by the millions, all over the world. But they control the media and wrote their story that they were the angels and the rest of the world, those that they killed or maimed were the bad guys. They were the bad Japanese, the bad North Koreans, the bad Vietnamese, the bad Arabs, the bad Africans, the bad Russians, the bad Muslims, the bad Latin Americans, the bad Mexicans, the bad Chinese but the good Americans and Europeans. The only people that were good and loved by the white God are the white Americans and white Europeans.
 
Both were wolves in their own rights. The Americans were seen as angels because the stupid want to believe in their myth and willingly do so. The Japanese have been putting on an innocent act and the daft have been taken in, forgetting that the wolf is wearing sheep skin.
 
See, it is so easy for the wolves to be invited home. They only need to put on a disguise, appear good, look good, look nice and everything will be fine. And many will be happily inviting the wolves home to eat them up for dinner.