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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (106342)7/18/2003 8:03:03 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
There were alternatives with Japan, absent the atomic bomb .... getting further up the Ryukyus [sp?], or just using Iwo Jima and Guam as airbases, keep them blockaded, keep pasting their cities .... which was pretty effective in that short time - far more were killed from 'conventional' firebombing than from the two atomic bombs .... there did not have to be an immediate invasion of the home islands

There were alternatives with Iraq .... getting together a genuine coalition of democracies, facing down the Hussein regime with far less bloodshed, with some legitimacy to help counter the inevitable mistakes, and help shoulder the subsequent responsibility
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