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To: zonder who wrote (6589)2/4/2004 1:27:09 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman  Read Replies (3) of 20773
 
I have no idea how the entire rest of the world would qualify that - most countries can and do their best to justify their behavior - some justification is true and makes sense, some is just plain off the wall nonsense

it is a stretch to compare things like Saddam gassing Kurds with America's decision to bring WWII to an end more quickly

there is certainly room for moral argument about whether both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were "necessary" (as opposed to Hiroshima alone with a warning that cities would come next) - also, the number of people killed in those two bombings pales by comparison with other WWII era slaughters

and finally, there is this - the U.S., having been attacked by Japan to begin with and savagely fought against by the Japanese for years in the Pacific, sought a way out of the war and when the bomb became functionable, my government choose to use it - nor do I think it can argued it saved more lives than it cost

we then installed an enduring democracy in Japan, something the Japanese never had before - Japan has become an impressively productive democracy as well as a peace-loving nation based on a legal system that the U.S. installed in a decade-long occupation - centuries of Japanese warlords pillaging and raping the rest of Asia and the Pacific were brought to an end - Japan is now one of the most responsible members of the community of nations

all brought about by American occupation, which, of course is viewed as bad thing in Iraq by the majority of the world today
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