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Re: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?
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Wed, 17 Oct 2001 03:26:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
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> > I think you need to make this point a little clearer - I definitely don't
> > agree that those attacks weren't terrorism.
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> 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.
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
prepared to go drop them bombs himself?
It's also easy to use phrases like "wartime solutions". Has not bin Laden
declared war on the US (http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ladin.htm)?
I say again, whether or not it was a "solution", whether or not it was
"necessary", whether or not Japan (at the time) was as evil empire, the act of
dropping the bombs on civilian cities (knowing it would cause great death and
destruction, and with reports that the radiation would probably also cause much
more pain) was still terrorism.
ROSCO
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| (...) Let's not blur the issue here. What was cowardly about the Sept 11 terrorism was that it took no courage to hijack civilian aircraft during peacetime and steer helpless civilian passengers into buildings. That's hardly the same as the US (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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