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Thread #28878 Message #363258
Posted By: InOBU
25-Dec-00 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: bush sends a message to terrorists
Subject: RE: bush sends a message to terrorists
Hi John: Merry Christmas!
You bring up a good point with the bombing of Dresden. Dresden employed the use of numerous small incendiary bombs to create a fire storm, a whirlwind of fire that we were more than capable of creating anywhere in Japan, espcially in the wooden cities of that nation which no longer had an airforce to speak of... (of which to speak, I know DougR :-) )
However, I think a hint of why we used to bomb on humans, not just as an example somewhere, the fact that we wanted to show it's destructive power on humans and that we were serrious enough to use it on humans, was the fact that we used all the a bombs we had. Then we sent a stratigic air wing to England and told Stalin that it was nuclear equipt, though it wasn't and that if he did not stop his territorial advances, we would bomb Moscow. Now, was that politically right? Well, there is an argument for it, was it terrorism, I would say in its most clasic form it is.
Let's hope people stop doing that to each other!
Let's start with a be kind to Trolls week.
Cheers,
Larry