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

To: Solon who wrote (42788)	1/29/2002 11:06:13 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Excellent job. This is a touchy subject. Most of the persons directly involved with WWII are out of the active loop by now. Sons and daughters of the forties and fifties (boomers) grew up with intact families and active fathers present in the home. There is no doubt sensitivity to the prospect of having had that taken away by a prolonged war. Your position seems to be that nukes or no nukes would not have been a factor in this. And that, the US was simply taking advantage of an opportunity to test weapons. Personally, I am grateful for having had both my parents active in my upbringing. So I can appreciate the emotion of discourse on this topic. On the other hand I am against targeting innocents as a strategy of war and would surrender before employing this strategy. So I feel regret about the decision to nuke Japanese cities. I thank God, I am not tasked with making military decisions.

To: Solon who wrote (42788)	1/29/2002 12:08:27 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

An individual i.e. a nation of individuals cannot be held accountable for something that happened before it was born. Your concept stinks of original sin. There can be no changing history books in accordance with your conscience or lack thereof. Japan deserves no sanction from victims still living for their atrocities. John Maynard Keynes said this: "The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness should be abhorrent and detestable . . . . Nations are not authorized, by religion or by natural morals, to visit on the children of their enemies the misdoings of parents or rulers." (5) Very ironically, Keynes made this observation in a book in 1920, a year before the reparations committee officially added on the new $25,000,000,000 fine! Solong solon, I'm now putting you on ignore forever.