777 fixer
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QUOTE (777 fixer @ Apr 15 2009, 10:49 AM) *
Its real easy for you to say would should go and kill an entire city of people when you are the one not having to give the order or carry it out.
Agreed. There wouldn't be any shortage of volunteersYou can deal with any bad dreams later, realizing that what was done was necessary. Defeating Japan and Nazi Germany required some severe nastiness. After all the horrible hostilities though...can anyone suggest other than those two previously, truly "Evil Empires" are no longer our enemies?...and are even generally friendly to the USA? Attempted appeasement of those who wish you dead, your nation and culture eradicated, and your people enslaved to some barbaric excuse for a "religion", is just flat-out insane. Nothing ever affords any permanent "fix" for this world, or human nature it's-own-self. Barring time's extreme processes, involving actual human evolution; wars and strife will be with us "always'..certainly..during the lifetimes of ourselves, our children and theirs. So...what's to do? Piney hits the nail squarely with the following observation:
We are not in a struggle against another nation state like we were in WWII. Therefore nuking another city and killing a majority of the people in it who have nothing to do with a terrorist act here is nothing more than murder.