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Re: More on Palestine
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Tue, 9 Oct 2001 02:49:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Because this is an Israel Palestine thread now, I thought I'd toss this in:
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> > http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin100801.shtml
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> Interesting that he talks about Japan as though we don't owe them anything,
> after we committed against them 2 of the worst single acts of terrorism the
> world has known.
WE? That, I suspect, was the US's doing, and the US's alone, I don't think
FDR consulted ANZAC. So you're off the hook.
But please explain how it was terrorism, exactly, to win a war against an
evil empire with less loss of life than a protracted island by island, house
to house campaign? Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't military targets, perhaps?
This raises a different, and relevant, point, though. If a government
deliberately mixes military installations in amongst civilians, thickly
interspersed, does it have the right to fairly cry foul if those military
targets are attacked with collateral damage during the prosecution of a war
that it started? I think not.
Democracies and free societies tend not to do that sort of siting.
Dictatorships tend to do that sort of siting and then cite it in their
propaganda when the inevitable happens.
Why is that?
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| (...) The allies were all fighting together. I dare say ANZAC didn't consult FDR on all movements involving US troops either. (...) The same old "it was war" excuse. Winning the war wasn't terrorism, dropping the bombs was. One was just a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Big words. But I am still not clear on what you mean by "free". I have asked you before, but yoy refuse to answer: ====== ====== (...) This is a joke coming from you, in the last weeks you have shown me that you don't understand (amongst (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hiroshima, as one of the largest Japanese harbours and railway junctions, probably has been one. The question in this case is more: Couldn't the US have waited to see how the Soviet strike against Japan, started shortly before, turns out? (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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