Google| Subject | Re: Clobberin' Time... |
| From | James W. King |
| Date | 09/13/2001 13:24 (09/13/2001 13:24) |
| Message-ID | <20010913072431.18407.00000242@mb-fm.aol.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc |
| Follows | Celaeno |
| Followups | Rich Handley (1h & 16m) > James W. King |
Celaeno">Jack_Shappa@hotmail.com</A>): "They support these cowards, now they need to pay. Let's pray Bush has at least the balls of his dad (hopefully more). Give 'em a couple days to evacuate the cities of our choice, then waste 'em. Make terrorism very expensive for the nations that support it."
Cryofax (<A HREF="mailto:Jack_Shappa@hotmail.com
Paul "Duggy" Duggan: "And let's kill the families of murders... show them we won't put up with that sort of thing either."
Cryofax: "So basically you're saying any other country should be allowed to sponsor activity that leads to civilian casualities, but we should never retaliate against them because we might hurt their 'innocent' civilians? At least we'd have the decency to let them evacuate a city before we annihilate it."
Celaeno (<A HREF="mailto:celaeno@shavenwookie.nospam.com ">celaeno@shavenwookie.nospam.com</A>): "Hiroshima. Nagasaki. And you don't know that a government has knowingly sponsored this."
What a repugnantly disingenuous comparison for you to foist on us, Rakelle!
The civilians of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were NOT innocent civilians in the strictest and most genuine sense of the word because they were citizens of a country which had not only initiated war against the United States but also had refused to end it.
Moreover, such acceptable collateral damage as civilians killed in the fog of war is the risk that a wayward country willfully takes when it wrongheadedly refuses to obey international law and wages imperialist wars of aggression.
So tell us, Rakelle: How would *you* have proposed that the Allies should have defeated Japan without exacting more undue bloodshed of one's own troops in order to have brought World War II to a quicker and less bloody conclusion than August 1945?
Well, Rakelle?
-- James King
09/11/2001-
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