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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (42062)	1/8/2002 5:19:27 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, the concept of civilians does indeed become fuzzy. Civilians do pay the price for the madness of their leaders. Yet, they are never entirely blameless. The Italian citizenry seemed not enthusiastic for war, but after the victory in Ethiopia they did appear to become intoxicated with the idea of conquest. The Germans (IMO) were broadly supportive of Hitler, and in the main agreed with aggression as being justified by the harsh peace terms imposed on their nation in the first World War. The Japanese population (IMO) was the most supportive of their military government of all the Axis powers. A wave of fanaticism seemed to have swept that nation at the time; a belief that it was Japanese destiny to be the ruling power of Asia, and not entirely absent a racist component toward the West. Confronted with a nation essentially gone mad, preferring national suicide to surrender in the end, the strategic decisions of the Allied powers became fraught with difficult moral choices.