> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff G. [mailto:Log0n5150 at hotmail.com] > Sent: 07 February 2005 23:11 > To: Brian Keegan; dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: on contradictions and such > > True, I am not implying anything regarding the morality of using those > weapons. I would have done the same, if I was in that > position. What the Japanese did to any area of occupied Asia was horrifying, > regardless of their treatment of POW's. But good old Iosif Dzhugashvili > killed at least 20 million of his own people and we left him alone. I still > wonder what the world would have been like if we had let Patton have his way > and continue his drive north east. > > Jeff G. I won't say that nuking the two cities was the wrong thing to do, as it shortened the war and saved lives both Japanese and allied; however just because someone does something bad, is that justification for doing bad things as well? Just cos "They were nasty first!". Mark