Subject:
|
Re: More on Palestine
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:47:25 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
599 times
|
| |
|
|
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> I am convinced the proper weapon was used. Not once, but twice.
Perhaps the proper weapon WAS used but WHOM it targeted is the issue here.
It was the wrong thing to do. Eisenhower thought the same too.
> I don't buy
> the "showing off to the Russians" bit but even if that *was* part of the
> motive, you know what? Bravo.
Actually, it IS an historical fact that the Japanese were tapped out and
were in the process of seeking a "face saving" surrender using the Russians
as intermediaries. Truman ignored this and went ahead with the bombing, by
his own admission in revealed documents, to scare off the Russians. So, just
for the record Larry, you commend the murder of hundreds of thousands of
defenseless men, women and children, wiped clean from the face of the earth
for the sake of showing our military might to the Russians? You think this
was a good thing, even though it has been revealed as unnecessary?
> We already *knew* the USSR was an evil empire too.
I suppose you voted for Ronny, eh?
> To our shame we took the wrong strategy for many many years and only
> vanquished them in 1990 instead of in 1946 when we had the first opportunity
> to do so.
Buddy, we've taken the wrong strategy on lots of things. Wake up.
Dan
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: More on Palestine
|
| (...) Do you have a cite for that? (...) Surrender to the Russians would have been unacceptable. We had set goals for this war and it is important to set goals and stick to them. Our current little war is somewhat lacking in concrete measurable (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: More on Palestine
|
| (...) Can you give me a link? I can't find it at the mo. But I am not sure there is much more to say. Using the proper weapon for the job against a determined, and ultimately evil, adversary is *not* terrorism. The world would have been a much (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
117 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
