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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (42567)1/23/2002 2:07:26 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (4) of 82486
 
"which would have solved the problem of the torture and inhuman treatment of the Chinese."

My comment was in response to your lamenting of the atrocities of war (for other nations and peoples).

I commented that the States had not (to my knowledge) shown any high-minded concern for the bloody tortures and war crimes against the Chinese until after P. H.

You have not shown that "war atrocities" was a concern of the United States. And you certainly would not want to expand this discussion into other wars...

"Four Japanese carriers lost to one US. And the war was lost that day."

Was it four to one? Super.

"Solon, you seem to think the world should be full of high moral purpose. It isn't. It's full of people"

I believe the world is better than when we ate people, or tore out their hearts as sacrifices or made women eat offal off the ground to prove their fidelity-or when we burned "witches".

I believe that every generation should do their very best to leave the world at just a little higher level of understanding and human compassion and co-operation than preceded them.

I know the world is "full of people". Let us make the best of it...
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