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To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (4300)	4/17/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Random thoughts Watched a news clip of serbian Tv depicting the bombing damage, the train bombing and the Albanian civilian bombing....It ended with the following: "Sorry" is not enough Someone will have to pay Every day that goes by and each bomb that falls on the Yugoslav soil creates a stronger hate that will make the interethnic hate there seems like a walk in the park. I am afraid that years from now all these kids who have their parents killed, have seen the damage and huddled in bomb shelters, these kids will be taken revenge for years to come. Serbs do not forget and do not forgive easily. Two recent incidents that may have to do with the bombing of Yugoslavia...This is purely hypothetical in my part: There was a 70 year old Russian immigrant in Salt Lake city who shot up a library and kiilled two and injured several. They say he was a schizophrenic but I wouldn't doubt it if seeing the carnage of Serbia set him off. Just today there was a nail bomb in England...who knows Serbs all over may had enough and decided to do something... Clinton now calls SM a "belligerent tyrant". Hmm, and this is the person he is supposed to negotiate with? Another goal to reach for I guess. A caller in a TV news show made this statement:"Why don't we use the money we are now spending to kill people to rebuild Albania and leave Kosovo to the Serbs?" Hmm, sounds reasonable to me...I bet you, given the economic assurances for rebuilding Albania, all of the refugees will stay there (of course by now having given up hope of getting to a Western country).

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (4300)	4/18/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 17770

I think the Japanese would have been starved out. The bombing campaign had ruined their infrastructure. Part of the problem was what to do about the Soviets, who were smashing into Manchuria. Dropping the a-bombs certainly stopped the russians... the minute news of the a-bomb came out, the russian attack into manchuria stopped. Who knows how much of Asia the soviets would have gobbled up without our using the bomb. FWIW Andy

To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (4300)	4/18/1999 6:55:00 PM
From: Mike M2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Abner, good points. The Japanese war atrocities have not had the same level of attention that the Germans have. I watched the history channel and learned about Unit 731 in China where the Japanese performed medical experiments on par with josef Mengele. To the best of my knowledge the Japanese were the only combatant to use biological weapons. A Japanese soldier on the history channel admitted that it was common practice to rape chinese women then burn them. The Japanese treatment of POWs was horrendous -random decapitations of prisoners for sport with their Samari swords. The Bataaan death march . Lets march the bleeding hearts that way and see how sympathetic they are. The American death rate was for 4% in german camps and 27% in Japanese camps. The Japanese camps had order to kill POWs upon an invasion of Japan. War is horrible but all this talk about valuing civilian life ( many employed making weapons) more than soldiers who were drafted after high school irritates me. The A bombs saved American lives sure there was political advantage by showing the Russians that we had the bomb but it was the right choice in my opinion. Mike