DEC 7th- A day which has lived in INFAMY

[ExAFO 0]

...Gotta love revisionist historians...

Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW.

[juanesky 0]

Yes, the poor Japanese did not do anything to warrant any retaliation in order to be stopped. None.

And to back stab the another issue, it was the US that helped rebuild Japan, while they maintained their sovereignty. Go figure. The Evil US. Could you imagine if it was the UK that got in charge of that? It would probably be another middle eastern story, like Iraq, or Palestine-Israel

"According to some of the conservatives here, it sounds like it's fine to beat your wide - as long as she had it coming." -Billvon

[Jasmin 0]

I always think back to Einstein when the debate over the use of nuclear weapons arises:
“I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but that World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

We marvel at our technological brilliance and intellect but fail to develop and maintain the humanity that such a responsibility demands.

[billvon 3,076]

>You cannot directly attack and annihilate 100,000 civillians and justify
> taking the moral high ground. I am not saying it was not a justifiable
>decision, merely that it wasn't an honourable one

Well put. Trying to justify the use of nuclear weapons against civilians during a war by using a moral argument is absurd. War is the most immoral thing we have invented to date. Winning is the only "moral value" in war, a sad fact that's been proved over and over again.

[happythoughts 0]

My dads cousin was at Pearl Harbor as a nurse.
She was not on base that day. She was visiting a friend and watched it from their house.