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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (446638)	8/22/2003 2:58:46 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well I see your self confessed hypocrisy as stupidity. But you are welcome. The morality of an act or deed is relative to the context in which the deed is carried out. There was total war. A country is a war machine. A city is a cog of that war machine. That is the reality of a country where the entire population serves their god the emperor. There were no civilians, just maybe some foreigners or prisoners who might be in the wrong place. The war machine had to stopped. If a civilian Airliner were hijacked and threatened the US it would be shot down. There is no difference in the morality. In a city in Japan, that city, it's logistics represented a threat to Americans at some future point in time. The Airliner represents a threat at a nearer point in time. In a state of war every city in Japan was hijacked and heading toward the destruction of Americans at some future time. It's not relative morality, it's relative threat. Winning a war is about dismembering the threat. Opportunity usually dictates the tactics.