Yeah--the difference now is Americans have to live with the same fear of being bombed as everyone else. Too bad our own government didn't do anything about it when they had the chance, huh?

Just because a government starts a war, doesn't justify their enemies intentionally targeting civilians. If you believe that, then you believe the 9/11 bombers were every bit as justified in what they did, as what we did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Only the Japanese civilian casualties were hundreds of thousands higher, including the effects on their offspring which meant the casualties continued into future generations.

If you are talking about historical context, then you have to accept that the US government has been very much in the wrong in the past, in the present, and will continue to be in the future if we allow things like nuclear proliferation to continue.

How about we do something proactive about nuclear proliferation here and now, by stopping the Bush administration from unilaterally scrapping our nuclear treaties, and prevent them from taking off on another unprecendented nuclear build-up? How about we insist our government stop testing nuclear weapons? How about we initiate the next round of nuclear, chemical, and bioterror weapons treaties, and be the world leaders on these issues, rather than the world bullies because we can get away with it?

How about we act on moral principal, rather than on behalf of the pocketbooks and bottom lines of the military industrial complex's corporate interests?