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To: elmatador who wrote (48355)	4/11/2004 12:11:29 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Actually ElM, none of them were bombed to rubble, though Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden were largely destroyed. Tokyo also got lots of damage, but as you can figure out from population statistics and published war casualties, there was only a small reduction in population. Britain also received a lot of damage from axis action, but that isn't why Britain does reasonably well economically. Some maniacs suggest that war is great for economic activity and therefore a good thing. I hope you aren't suggesting that. South Korea, Japan, West Germany didn't do well because they were formed after major wars. Hong Kong wasn't bombed to rubble either. To show you that it wasn't because of being bombed to rubble that they did well, consider East Germany and North Korea. They were "bombed to rubble" as much as West Germany and South Korea, but they have definitely NOT done well. So you can see that your theory that bombing people to make them wealthy is wrong [not to mention insane, criminal, unethical and horrific]. Mqurice