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To: AC Flyer who wrote (42327)	12/2/2003 12:36:57 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

You lack historic perspective. You talk about waging wars of conquest in a time of plenty and surpluses. People were forced to be brutal in order to survive. This is not a comfortable way of life. People prefer the easy way out of trading. hence we became less war-like because we rely on trade not in plunder. Hence it has no practical purpose to condemn what people did in a bygone era. Or should you go and do like the Nigerians and keep blaming the British forever?

To: AC Flyer who wrote (42327)	12/2/2003 7:20:31 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74559

The two bombs that killed 200,000 Japanese people saved Japanese lives. One of the ordinary bombings killed 30,000 people in Japan, because the cities with their wooden houses burnt easily. To soften up the place for easier landings would have required killing one to two million Japanese. The scientists at Oak Ridge who were working on the atom bomb dreamed that their bomb would flatten Berlin and end the war, saving so many lives! The omnipresent technical difficulties delayed matters. When the atom bomb finally became a reality the scientists drafted and sent a letter to Truman urging him to give the Japanese a demo by warning in advance that they would obliterate with an unprecedented new weapon a specified barren unoccupied Japanese island. After the demo they would expect the Japanese to surrender. It's not clear whether this would have worked or not but in fact their letter was probably intentionally delayed by somebody in the system and didn't reach Truman until after the bombs had been dropped and the Japanese had surrendered. I say please quit ganging up on the Japanese for the cruelty we saw from a preceding generation. The Ku Klux Klan and centuries of oppressing black people and often lynching them, don't speak of a kind civilization either. Let's all be kinder people and that's the best thing we can do. Speaking of that will some kind person give us the name of some hot stock that will surely go up 20% in the next few days?