Disagree with methodology, Dibs. No reason to annihilate 100k people, dropping it on a sparsely populated outer island would’ve shown the destructive power. It was punitive (and racist), though & through.
“However, we in the US are completely unwilling to examine our own behavior in our many wars, including the barbaric assault on Hiroshima/Nagasaki”
WHOA….as much as I’m a japanophile, they started it and they would NOT stop, no matter what we hit them with. They were ruled by an emporer who had divine-like powers over the people. Wars are there to test new technology, and we did.
No, the US would never have dropped that bomb on Europe but that was partly for geopgraphic reasons and, I will admit, partly out of racism (that they did drop it on japan.)
They should have surrendered after the first drop.
I think that we’ve dropped the ball in ALL subsequent wars and should have ended each and every one of them with greater force.
I’m not responding actually to your junk, just amused by the fact that you like making such stupid and childish statements. But of course, that’s probably the real you, not the one who occasionally posts apparently thoughtful stuff.
>It is truly horrifying what went on and how little North Americans know of the barbarity of our govenments / military actions in that region: even in the 80’s the U.S would block other countries from sending humanitarian aid to Vietnam.
Apropos of the discussion of reality vs speculation, I’d agree that all of humanity is likely (though not equally) to perpetrate barbarism.
However, we in the US are completely unwilling to examine our own behavior in our many wars, including the barbaric assault on Hiroshima/Nagasaki, what biff mentions above, and all the minor brutalities on civilian populations in the Iraq wars I & II. That sort of conversation is impossible as long as we have jingo-istic conservatives telling us that any criticism of our conduct is ‘self-hate’ and unpatriotic.
I’m all lost in Supermarket, I can no longer shop happily…
Disagree with methodology, Dibs. No reason to annihilate 100k people, dropping it on a sparsely populated outer island would’ve shown the destructive power. It was punitive (and racist), though & through.
egion, that’s what i was thinking. it sounds like what they allow you to drink before a colonoscopy.
*rob*
that drink sounds like a prescription
for an emetic.
“However, we in the US are completely unwilling to examine our own behavior in our many wars, including the barbaric assault on Hiroshima/Nagasaki”
WHOA….as much as I’m a japanophile, they started it and they would NOT stop, no matter what we hit them with. They were ruled by an emporer who had divine-like powers over the people. Wars are there to test new technology, and we did.
No, the US would never have dropped that bomb on Europe but that was partly for geopgraphic reasons and, I will admit, partly out of racism (that they did drop it on japan.)
They should have surrendered after the first drop.
I think that we’ve dropped the ball in ALL subsequent wars and should have ended each and every one of them with greater force.
I’m not responding actually to your junk, just amused by the fact that you like making such stupid and childish statements. But of course, that’s probably the real you, not the one who occasionally posts apparently thoughtful stuff.
Headline:
“UN Returning to Somalia in Effort to Stop Terrorist Takeover of Government.”
When has the UN actually been able to do anyhting like that???
>It is truly horrifying what went on and how little North Americans know of the barbarity of our govenments / military actions in that region: even in the 80’s the U.S would block other countries from sending humanitarian aid to Vietnam.
Apropos of the discussion of reality vs speculation, I’d agree that all of humanity is likely (though not equally) to perpetrate barbarism.
However, we in the US are completely unwilling to examine our own behavior in our many wars, including the barbaric assault on Hiroshima/Nagasaki, what biff mentions above, and all the minor brutalities on civilian populations in the Iraq wars I & II. That sort of conversation is impossible as long as we have jingo-istic conservatives telling us that any criticism of our conduct is ‘self-hate’ and unpatriotic.
Dibs – you are a grown man – 1 slice of pizza isn’t enough!
CMU – did you like my bike thread rants??!?!?! – haaaa