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Re: Peace in the Mid-East?
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Sat, 18 May 2002 14:53:26 GMT
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordi@erols.com> writes:
> (Now if you think that is being ridiculously paranoid consider
> this. Durring World War 2 when US troops were taking Islands with
> Japanesse civilians it was very common to see people jumping off
> cliffs to avoid "capture." Fortunatly most of the Japanesse did
> not belive their government's lies and discovered that the US
> soldiers had no ill will toward unarmed cilivians.)
If the word "soldier" is used in the wide sense here, the last
statement is probably flase. It is a common opinion that the ultimate
Japanese capitulation was caused by the heavy civillian casualties
after the atomic bomb attacks. Prior to the atomic bomb attack, there
were also a number of US fire bomb raids on major Japanese cities.
The target for the fire bomb raids was the civillian population, which
to a large extent lived in homes made out of wood and paper. Some
estimates indicate that the fire bomb raids caused more civillian
casualties than the two atomic bombs combined, but noone will probably
ever be able to assess the casualties exactly.
The major targeting of civillian population to lower enemy morale
during WWII, is a dark chapter in the history of man.
Fredrik
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| [snip] (...) That is why I used an excerpt that contained its sorce reference. (...) Arab propaganda. Not all Arabs (Palestinians) fled Israel in 1948, because they did not belive the silly things that the dictators tell them. (like the Saudi-Arabia (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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