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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: Angler who wrote (9257)1/7/2002 10:33:10 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Of all the human traits revenge is one of the nastiest. Those that participate without objection or simply don't object are scarred by it. We can see the results now in Israel and the Arab world, the Irish problem and the ongoing Eastern Bloc conflicts (Kosovo, etc.)

I've modified a well known quote that I think is more representative of the reality. We study history so that we understand how we can precisely repeat it.

There was an Israeli commentator that I saw on the tube a few weeks ago that said of the Israel/Palestine conflict: This goes all the way back to Abraham I thought to myself...Wow, talk about holding a grudge!

Great sacrifices have always been taken like calculated risks. Perhaps, Coventry was such a decision? Like the lesser of two evils. How about Harry Truman's (my favorite President) decision to drop the Atom bomb? In the aftermath of a raging war such decisions are considered benign, and I doubt Harry had any anguish later over it.

I tend towards believing that the decision on Conventry was harder. There you've sacrificed your own people. Truman's decision only negatively impacted the enemy and I don't think that there was any way to fully understand what sort of power was being unleashed. I'm not suggesting that it was an easy decision, just that Coventry was a more personally difficult one to make. Either one could be "what if-ed", but my preference would be to just understand what the decision makers thought at the time and thereafter.

Thanks,
jttmab
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