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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (131971)	9/27/2001 3:04:49 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

...but perhaps, in his distorted mind, he believed that killing our civilians would "save lives" in the end. The last thing I want to do is debate the morality of A-bombs to end WWII, but one key difference with bin Laden is that he appears to be trying very hard to start a world war, not end one. What lives could he possibly be trying to save? That's all I wanted to say. Bob

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (131971)	9/29/2001 12:27:09 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 164684

>> craig, my issue with dropping a-bombs on japan is that it sets a clear precedent... it is ok to directly target civilians if one deems it "expedient." << good point, although as mr buschman points out there are some key differences. >> osama is a sick sob, but perhaps, in his distorted mind, he believed that killing our civilians would "save lives" in the end. << hmm...somehow i don't think he cares about saving lives. >> i'm sure there were alternatives to slaughtering civilians in that matter that would have gotten the "unwinnable war" message out. a nuke off the shoreline and/or in an uninhabited area, coupled with the threat of more to come, would have done wonders, imho.. we'll never know, though. << the problem is we only had two, and we weren't really sure they would even work.