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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (244235)	10/7/2007 1:13:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

When a country is moral, its actions aren't influenced by the other side. In fact, they stand in contrast to the other side Then the US was an immoral country in WWII. But then, that's your position anyway, isn't it? The Perfect is the enemy of the Good. The laws of war, back in the days when they were thought up for use, not by utopians who thought that by making the laws they could outlaw war altogether, depended for execution on the hope of reciprocity. Once that hope was gone, the law was not observed. Americans didn't take Japanese prisoners for much of the Pacific war even when they tried to surrender, knowing how the Japanese treated American prisoners. They thought it was only likely to be a trick anyway, so they didn't want to endanger their own men.