On Dec 22, 12:17 am, "John E." wrote:
Mr. Self,

I don't consider myself a "revisionist asshole" but I do believe that the
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were immoral. As were the fire bombings
of Dresden, the raids over Tokyo, the bombing of London, the concentration
and the internment camps, et al.

War is an immoral business, no matter who starts it.

It if solved anything, we wouldn't need to keep having them.

John E.

"Charlie Self" wrote in message

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16 million served in the Armed Forces during WWII, if my memory is
working. I still ahve a partial book or two of the green stamps
around, stamps my parents bought for me when I was 3-4-5-6.

Now, we get revisionist assholes stating that A-bombing Japan was
immoral, and killed far more people than necessary. Oh, yeah. And it
was racist because we didn't A-bomb Germany. True enough, but, IIRC,
Germany quit about the same day Truman was sworn in to replace
Roosevelt, who had just died. Hitler suicided that same day and that
war was effectively over. Too, I guess the revisionists haven't heard
of the fire bombing of Dresden, nor the fears that all the top brass
in the U.S. had at the time that the Japanese were prepared to defend
their land to the last person. I still believe that.

Semper fi.

I am not in favor of war when less costly--in terms of lives and
emotions, as well as the lesser problem of money--methods work.
Unfortunately, that is not always the case...let's recall that WWII
gained some major impetus, on the European side at least, by an
attempt at being easy, taking the other side's word, and
then...blitzkrieg.

Pacifism only works when non-pacifists kick the crap out of enemies of
the pacifists.