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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161239)	4/29/2005 5:24:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Tim, no it's not. It's a matter of scale and proportion. Its a huge difference in scale a proportion. And it isn't only a difference in scale and proportion. Many of the Nazi and Japanese atrocities in WWII were deliberate policy not a matter of a unit getting out of control. That is an important distinction. The people killed in the Rape of Nanking were not collateral damage, they were targeted. Yes they are just as dead either way but it is an important moral distinction. "Our side" aren't all arch angels, surprising though that might seem. Not surprising at all. In fact its obvious and beyond reasonable dispute. But not all actions by people who aren't "arch angels" are morally equivalent. Saying that Americans don't typically act like the Nazis or Pol Pot, or the Japanese at Nanking, and that in fact that we have never committed an atrocity like the ones they committed, isn't saying that we are perfect. Tim