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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
some people seem to never learn the lessons from WW2, korea, and vietnam. Reprisals against civilian populations NEVER attain your objective, they only serve to incite a larger body of enemies.
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Thank you for this. This has been sitting badly with me since I read it, and I wasn't yet sure how I wanted to respond. This is a good start.
I cannot believe the suggestion that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were America's greatest wartime atrocities--and should not have happened--is so open for debate. They were monstrous acts. Deplorable. America's greatest failure of humanity. It's that simple.
To suggest wanton cruelty in retaliation to an enemy, especially where civilians are concerted, and simply in the name of war, overlooks a basic humanism that, when lost, forever changes the face of a nation. A no-holds-barred approach to war, especially in this day and age of communication and community has no place in the world. That America must do this suggests its power is waning. The failures of the American industrial complex isn't the worst of the nation's problems, yet it is the most indicative sign of an overall misguidance and loss of ingenuity.