05-17-2004, 11:51 PM
Sorry if I misunderstood your point. You're right about calling off the dogs too soon. I agree that some of our policies are costing more lives than should be. There is nothing perfect especially in war. Many mistakes have been made and will continue to be made but it bothers me that so many people want to throw out the baby with the bath water. In WWII we made mistakes that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers (Tarawa for example) but there weren't protests and daily calls for the administration to resign. It's hard to be positive when we get a daily barrage of how bad it's going and how bad we are.
Again we'll have to disagree about Japan. They were perhaps more brutal and fanatic than the Nazi's. You should read the book about the Batan death march. Have you ever heard of the rape of Nanking? Some people say as many as 20 million Chinese died during the war and most of them were not due to strateigic military attacks. As I said before we warned them. They could have surrendered but there was no way they would without the threat of total destruction. In case you didn't know it took two bombs to do it and in the end it saved the lives of millions. You know many times more people were killed in the fire bombings before the A-bomb. It's the same problem we have now with the terrorists. How do you reason with or have peace with fanatics who would be glad to die for their cause? The question is will we be able to win this war by politically or militarily ending support for the terrorists or will it come to nukes?
Like I said I don't agree with Everything Bush does but have you heard what John Kerry Or Ted Kennedy are saying? I don't think the alternative will be very pretty.
Thanks for the debate.
FM
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Again we'll have to disagree about Japan. They were perhaps more brutal and fanatic than the Nazi's. You should read the book about the Batan death march. Have you ever heard of the rape of Nanking? Some people say as many as 20 million Chinese died during the war and most of them were not due to strateigic military attacks. As I said before we warned them. They could have surrendered but there was no way they would without the threat of total destruction. In case you didn't know it took two bombs to do it and in the end it saved the lives of millions. You know many times more people were killed in the fire bombings before the A-bomb. It's the same problem we have now with the terrorists. How do you reason with or have peace with fanatics who would be glad to die for their cause? The question is will we be able to win this war by politically or militarily ending support for the terrorists or will it come to nukes?
Like I said I don't agree with Everything Bush does but have you heard what John Kerry Or Ted Kennedy are saying? I don't think the alternative will be very pretty.
Thanks for the debate.
FM
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