--- "K.Feete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> All right, we have symbolically
i don't follow you here
refrained from using
> nuclear weapons on
> numerous occasions. But aren't we sort of the only
> people who've ever
> *used* nuclear weapons? Doesn't that sort of muck up
> our track record?
>
This always bothers me. People like to forget that it
was during wartime and play it up (not that you are,
Kat) like the Japanese were just whistling peacefully
on their island and WHAM we blow up a couple of their
cities. I don't see how the method of people-killing
matters. In fact, dropping the bombs ended the war by
scaring the snot out of the Japanese command. That
not only saved hundreds of thousands of American
lives, but in the net it saved plenty of Japanese too.
These people were ready, willing, and able to defend
their island to the last man, woman and child-they
weren't going to surrender. And they had a nasty bag
of tricks of their own waiting, of course.
dean
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