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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 02:51:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> The most devastating war in ALL of human history is a very
> hard thing to Monday-morning quarterback. In a total war,
> how much is too much? Historians try to put themselves into
> the contextual position, and to figure out who knew what, when,
> and why they might have made the decisions they did. And to
> my satisfaction--both personal *and* professional--the right
> decision was made. Indeed, it was the only politically and
> strategically--in the long term--viable decision given the
> context of 1945.
That is open to argument, but I don't have enough knowledge of politics at the
time, so I'll bow to your greater knowledge. But though it's changing the
subject of the thread, I still believe the acts of dropping the bombs were
terrorism, no matter whether or not they were necessary / justifiable.
ROSCO
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| (...) By that definition, *any* act taken in a military conflict is "terrorism." The major difference is that the civilians of Japan had no basis for an *expectation* of safety--especially when you consider what happened to Tokyo in March, and (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Nope, it was definitely a thread. My post on the subject, which includes why I think it was both political and necessary, is here: (URL)Honestly, it sounds like you were making a rather "might-makes-right" (...) The most devastating war in ALL (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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