Dan Minette wrote: > >As for accusing the US of bombing children, I think that such hyperbola is >not helpful. The US bombed military positions, and errant bombs killed >civilians. (...) > I disagree - the same could be said about the Oklahoma terrorist, who didn't bomb children, he bombed the IRS [or some other evil thing].
Bombing children is evil, be it intentional or accidental. What must be said is that *accidents* are a lesser evil to allowing the terrorists to continue existing. I think these things must be said in full: the USA killed children in Dresden or in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was an evil deed. But it was a *necessary* evil, because the alternative [allowing the Nazi regime to survive or killing millions in a land invasion of Japan] was a worse evil. Alberto Monteiro
