Ah Troll, old brother, here we go agian:
Many historians, and I among them, feel the a bombs were used to insure that Russia did not take territory in an already beaten Japan. As many people died in the arial bombing of Tokio, as died in Hiroshima, and though it would have taken a few more air raids, the same thing could have been acomplished with tactical weapons. We used the A Bomb to send a message to the soviet union which we continued to send until we destroyed the soviet union and helped to establish the present criminocracy there.
Little Hawk, (also my brother!) As to the IRA being a terrorist organisation, please read posts from last year about the Doherty case, and other posts which evidence was presented from American courts, that leaned towards England, yet becasue of impariality of the system, England's contention the the IRA was a terrorist organisation was defeted. Actualy, to you credit, your definition is close to the legal definition, and the making of war against civilian poplulations is in fact, the main part of the definition, which England was not able to show in the case of the IRA, even given much greater legal resourses, and courts leaning in their favor.
I would agree, that the US, as with most modern industrial nations, is in fact, a promoter of, and is guilty of terrorism, not the least has been the genocidal war against the indigionous populaiton of Turtle Island (contenental America).
Well an hour to go until Christmas, so I will continue this, if there is more about this, on Saint Stephen's day.
A peaceful and joyful Christmas to all
Larry