I'm not sure why it should be controversial. It was a great insight and one man's opinion.
Tom Send a noteboard - 04/03/2010 09:26:19 PM
Most people do recognize that the war needed to be ended in this way to avoid the entire destruction of the Japanese race (whether in resistance or suicide). Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the kamikazes and other similar examples of the way Japanese soldiers and civilians were thinking prove that only something radical like the atomic bomb could avert even worse slaughter.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
This will be controversial in the extreme, I expect -
- 04/03/2010 09:01:16 PM
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Fascinating is the word.
- 04/03/2010 09:09:21 PM
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Re: Fascinating is the word.
- 04/03/2010 09:53:26 PM
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An interesting tidbit
- 04/03/2010 10:02:32 PM
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Makes sense; I've always heard invasion casualty estimates were 3 million dead.
- 04/03/2010 10:40:11 PM
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That estimate sounds like what they told us. Not 100% on it though. *NM*
- 04/03/2010 10:54:35 PM
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Look at the casulities just from Okinawa and you can get an idea of what would have happened
- 04/03/2010 11:43:00 PM
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Agreed.
- 05/03/2010 01:14:13 AM
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I'm not sure why it should be controversial. It was a great insight and one man's opinion.
- 04/03/2010 09:26:19 PM
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