At 04:40 AM 7/19/01, Jeroen wrote:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Verzonden: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:20 AM
> > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Onderwerp: Ethical advances Re: Non-proliferation RE: Authority of the
> > marketplace?
>
> > At 11:48 PM 7/18/01 +1200 K.Feete wrote:
> > >>Of course, at this point I would point out that the USA has made more
> > >>ethical advances in the past 100 years than any other nation - but
> > >>you never seem much interested in addressing that point.
> > >
> > >The Japanese disagree.
> >
> > Never said that the United States was *perfect*. Just said that we
> > had made more ethical advances than any other nation. (As a side
> > note, I bet an awful lot of Japanese *don't* disagree. After all, is
> > there any doubt that they would have dropped a nuclear bomb on us?)
>
>Is there any *evidence* that they were going to drop a nuke on the US?
There is evidence in documents recovered after the war that they were
planning a biological attack on the CONUS in November 1945, under the code
name "Operation Lotus Blossom at Night." They had tested the germs on
Chinese villages and on prisoners of war, who were vivisected without
anaesthesia because of the possibility drugs might have interfered with the
results.
> > I apologize that my choice of words was a bit unclear, but what I
> > intended to say was that the United States has introduced more new,
> > positive, ethical constructs into world opinion in the past 100 years
> > than any other.
>
>Which takes us right back where we were about a month ago. Anyone want to
>start another "The US Is The Greatest" thread?
There are worse places.
-- Ronn! :)
