Well, deja vu, on the discussion of wheatehr or not the US ***had*** to nuke Japan, or if it had to ***re-nuke*** them as if they might have not gotten the 1st nuking...

I agree with Barry... There were other ways for the US to have shown the Japanese that they, the US, had indeed figured the nuke out before anyone else an' if Japan wanted to escape having one dropped over one of their population centers then perhaps Japan migh consider a surrender...

Yeah, the US could have dropped the Nuke off-shore and sent a communique for the Japenses to just look out over the horizon...

This would have been a more humane decision...

Yes, I understand the absolutely horrendous battles between our two countries... My uncle was wounded twice in the Pacific and came home after what he'd done and seen and drank himself into the grave but...

This would have been the more humane course...

No one can say theu ***own*** the correct opionion on this decision... Not Teribus, not Barry, not any one... There is no ***proof positive*** waiting to be unleashed on this decison that makes it right... or wrong...

There is, however, differences in the way that folks like Barry and I look at ***conflict resolution*** compared to the way that a Terribus, or breadedbruce or a Dickey would choose...

I have said many times that with an increasingly shrinking and interdependant world economy that *** killing*** folks with whom you disagree is no longer a ***luxary*** that the world can afford...

I wouldn't have made a decision to use the nuke over a population center, regarless of me anger... Just as I wouldn't have decided to invade and occupy Iraq... Neither, IMO, solved probelms but created larger ones that we just pass down to our kids to solve...

At some point in time, mankind will quit this cycle of failure...

...or it won't and given the amount of munitions now vailbale to mankind, mankind will just, for all practical purposes, put itself into the extinct column...

That was what the folks who marched on the Pentagon were trying to say...

Bobert