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To: GST who wrote (131976)	9/29/2001 12:56:25 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>> "actually saved lives" Yes, I said exactly this in my post << i apologize. i was in skim mode and zipped through your post too fast. if i had seen that you mentioned it i wouldn't have felt the need to mention it. >> Our motives and the results we can debate, but the fact is we have indeed engaged in this form of mass murder when it suits our objectives << true. like pat buchanan said on fox news yesterday, the world views the united states as a bunch of hypocrites. after all we took florida from the spanish and western florida from the french like a bunch of imperialists, but when iraq decided to take kuwait prior to the gulf war we acted like we were the moral arbiters who had the right to tell everyone else what they could and could not do. the point he makes is what price are we willing to pay to force our views of morality on the rest of the world. so far we are at 7,000 and counting. he summed it up quite poignantly. he said, "the reason they (terrorists) are over here, is because we are over there." don't buy into the media and political punditry that spews propaganda such as "we were just minding our own business in our just and free society and those jealous muslims just couldn't stand it so they devoted their lives to destroying us." like i said, i am not justifying what the terrorists did, i am simply taking the pragmatic view of what prompted them to do what they did and how it could have been prevented. >> And we used women and children as test subjects in our experiment -- nothing noble about that Craig << nope, but war is cruel, no matter if it's women and children dying or young men. >> But we did not need to target women and children to make our point -- unless our point was to instill the terrifying possibility that we were preparing to kill every man, woman and child in Japan without setting foot on Japanese soil -- that we were indeed capable of mass murder on a scale never before comtemplated << well the japanese were awfully stubborn. they would not give up. it's a pretty black and white issue if you ask me. which is more important? preserving as many young american men as possible or saving japanese women and children? of course as an american i think saving the greatest number of american soldiers was more important.