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

To: Yogizuna who wrote (42275)	1/14/2002 5:55:34 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

So all of those evil folk, like Harry Truman and General Marshall, got together and said, "Let's drop the big one and see what happens!"? Okay, I guess that is one possible interpretation......

To: Yogizuna who wrote (42275)	1/14/2002 6:22:01 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Sorry, but I do not believe in nuking a country's cities because they refuse to totally surrender" That makes sense. Why destroy so many innocents in order to allow a surrender which retains the Emperor, after all!? Clearly, the carnage was not predicated upon forcing a conditional surrender, as that was the very surrender which the Japanese had been trying to negotiate for months! And it wasn't intending to force an unconditional surrender; because once they had tested the bombs and given the message to Russia--they went ahead and negotiated a conditional surrender!! Naturally, if it was not your children burn't to the sidewalk like eels, you would not have the same perspective as the punks who look back on it from the end of the century, while they fiddle with first love and first stereo...

To: Yogizuna who wrote (42275)	1/14/2002 7:17:14 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, when you're elected President you can try running the country your way. Till then, I'll just be grateful that we had other leaders who made the decisions they did.

To: Yogizuna who wrote (42275)	1/15/2002 2:34:50 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The US did not intend to still be fighting Japan now (2002) in 1945. It intended to bring the war to close, bring its boys back home, and resume a normal peaceful life. Whether you approved or not. The fastest way of ending that war was to thoroughly convince the Japanese that if they did not surrender, they faced total annihilation. Once that was done, the Japanese government surrendered. Let me ask you somethng: Do you believe the average Japese citizen alive today would prefer t be living under the current democratic government or the military dictatorship that existed prior to and during WWII?