(April 30, 2009 at 4:50 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(April 30, 2009 at 2:59 pm)leo-rcc Wrote:(April 30, 2009 at 12:33 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: For reasons already given I don't accept it applies to the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Your non acceptance doesn't make it incorrect though. The use of the nuclear weapons on Japan made the decision for the emperor to surrender a lot easier because he feared the consequences for his people. That is the essense of terrorism, no matter what the motive is.
Likewise your belief that it IS terrorism doesn't make that correct either. I do not accept that those bombings were terrorist actions because they were firstly at war, it was Japan that started the war and there were a lot of US soldiers lives at risk (lives that arguably WERE saved).
Kyu
So you say the Nuclear bombs were not an act of terror but the V1 and V2 were? How are they different? And what about Dresden? Guernica?
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Leo van Miert
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Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
