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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: epicure who wrote (189294)6/14/2006 7:11:31 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I've never seen you say that America is right, either! Forget the "always right"....I'd be happy with 50% right, or at least half the time right....

You said:>>>>>We could never get away with doing in Iraq, what was done in Japan. I don't even think we could get away with doing to Japan what was done to Japan, in this more modern age of new reporting<<<<<

You said:>>>>>Major cities like Tokyo suffered horrendous damage. Not only did our bombing weaken Japan, but long costly foreign adventures had also weakened it-<<<<

You said: >>>>>I am aware of German and Japanese war crimes, but I don't find the war crimes of one country to be an excuse for crimes of another<<<<<

As for me, For the record, I would think that most civilized people everywhere would be against bombing civilian populations. That didn't seem to stop the Muslim fanatics on 9-11 however.

and Re: bombing civilian populations:

Japan, French, Germans and British:

blogcritics.org

Civilian bombings...

sitemason.vanderbilt.edu

en.wikipedia.org

sitemaker.umich.edu
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