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Re: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:41:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> I think you need to make this point a little clearer - I definitely don't
> agree that those attacks weren't terrorism.
Let me see if I can paraphrase your position accurately:
Regarding an enemy who not long before had made an unprovoked attack against
US soil, an enemy that had been responsible for hideous medical experiments
(not to mention the extermination of huge numbers of Chinese), you're stating
that it is an act of terrorism for the US to drop bombs on two cities of that
enemy in an effort to bring to an end the most costly and destructive war in
history. Do I have the essence of your argument? It's easy for me to see why
you equate such actions with the seizure of four planes full of passengers and
using those passengers as missiles. If I'm wrong, please articulate for me how
the cowardly actions of internationally recognized terrorists is morally
equivalent to wartime solutions undertaken during war by the US against an
enemy that had declared war on the US.
Dave!
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) The problem is the hole I dug for myself here. We hold them to be terrorists but they do not hold themselves as such. Rather they see themselves as combatants in a war against evil (US) which they *have* declared, some time ago, and which they (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?
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| (...) how (...) It's easy to use words like "cowardly" in such situations - were the pilots flying the planes which dropped the bombs "cowardly"? No they were following orders (they may have even volunteered). Was Truman "cowardly" then - he wasn't (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The use of a 767 on Sep 11 was probably deemed effective and appropriate by the perpetrators - with a little investment in pilot training, and without the need to carry into the country any explosives or risk discovery by building their own, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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