And every time something goes wrong in the world, everyone looks at America and says "Do Something!"
So don't put us down because we are armed. We have been thrust into the role of cops of the world. For example, Kosovo was and is a European problem but guess who is there "keeping the peace"?
Ashcroft did not campaign after his opponents death, nor did he challenge any of the vote count. In doing so he allowed his dead opponents widow to win an important seat. To me, this bespeaks a kind of gallantry that apparently most of you do not wish to recongize. So much more soul-satisfying to say beaten by a dead man because you don't agree with his beliefs.
Re: the A-Bomb and Japan. Those bombs were dropped to save American lives. Period. It was estimated that it would have cast many thousands of American lives had we been forced to invade the Main Islands.
I have read the books by the apologists and they are just that, apologies written by prople who are and were so damn afraid of a nuclear war that they would tell any lie and reinforce any rumor that would forward their agenda. The lie that Hiroshima and Nagasake were purely civilian targets is a good example. There was military manufacturing gioning on in both cities, in particular, small arms parts. This was being done in small factories and not huge complexes.
I would also strongly suggest that everyone read about the rape of Nanking and about Shanghai where tens of thousands of Chinese civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese AFTER those cities had surrendered.
It might give you a little better understanding of haw the leaders of the US felt toward Japan.

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