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To: tejek who wrote (625776)	8/25/2011 1:14:14 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572778

>> Dropping the bomb on Japan may have been necessary or warranted because of war fatigue in the US....but righteous? Killing hundreds of thousands of mostly innocent people? I don't think so. We were going to be forced to invade Japan had the Bombs not been used. It would have been a bloodbath on both sides. You can argue about the meaning of "righteous" in the context. I recommend you break your long-standing history of non-reading and check out E.B. Sledge's excellent book, "With the New Breed". I believe you will understand the righteousness of using the Bombs on Japan. >> Losing another $200 billion is not likely but we have spent way too much money for too little reward. We don't know what the "reward" will be, but we don't know what the cost would have been to put off the the Iraq War. Just the no-fly zones alone would likely have run 150 Billion over this time period, and that doesn't count the other costs. It is doubtful the so-called "Arab Spring" would have occurred at all without the Iraq War, and we don't know what the benefits of THAT will have been over 20 years and longer. And of the 800B spend on the Iraq War a substantial portion of that has effectively served as economic stimulus at home (a fact that Stiglitz, et.al., conveniently overlooks). >> I was in a hurry. My mistake That was not a mistake from being in a hurry. That was a mistake from not knowing the difference in a billion and a trillion. >> Iraq is still in chaos.........8 years later. If it is, and I don't know whether it is or not, that's Obama's fault. Obama inherited a stable situation in Iraq but has largely ignored it -- you know, it being the "bad" war. It should not surprise anyone that it is deteriorated.