Bigger sins than offending (Tancredo writes editorial)

Denver Post ^ | Tom Tancredo

[porkchops 4 mahound]

That's just silly.

There is no parallel between Kyoto and the islamic "holy" cities.

Kyoto is NOT now, and never has been, "holy" to the Japanese.

Kyoto was the capital of Japan for many years and the Japanese still say, "do not say splendid until you see Kyoto".

"Holy" didn't have a darned thing to do with it.

[Dane]

Please reply to my question if you can. You are the one making the emotional charges and not backing them up. I asked for facts to substantiat your attacks on a Republican and you don't deliver. Where is the proof. Show us the links, citations, that shows the propaganda points

Please answer reply #91.

[Modok]

You have nothing but emotion to back up your words. You operate like a liberal with your attacks on a Republican member of Congress and unappeasable appeals to emotion. Give us the facts to back up your charges.

[Dane]

Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, removed Kyoto as the #1 atomic bomb target because he thought that it's destruction would increase the likelihood that Japan would be driven into Russia's arms after the war. In other words, the decision not to vaporize Kyoto was realpolitik

Hmm, lets see, bomb mecca, and send a 1 billion muslims to the chicomms.

Real smart strategery there.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

INTIMIDATION is one aspect of WAR.

We are busy moving on to CRUSHING. Acutal physical real CRUSHING.

[Rooivalk]

Huh what's missing there, oh yes the Japanese holy city of Kyoto.

What would have been the justification for bombing Kyoto?

[adam_az]

" The point remains that Japan's most holy city, Kyoto, was spared in World War II."


Kyoto was initially on the target list for the second atomic bomb.

Kokura was the primary target, but it was saved by weather.

Yes, Kyoto was saved because of Japanese religious considerations... also because it was a great storehouse of cultural and historical artifacts. Mecca is not quite such an ancient city, and rather than resentment, destroying it is more likely to totally demoralize the Islamic insurgency. After all, after the destruction of Jerusalem, you didn't see Jews turn into mass murderers for a 1400 year stretch. There's precedent both ways.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Not to be crude but you present a very "target rich environment" that way.

"Fish in a barrel".

Works for me.

[adam_az]

"The Vatican is a holy site revered by over a billion people and if a govt. official in say iran said nuke it, what would your reaction be."

It is apples and oranges.

One more time, Dane...

Nice try, last time I checked, the Vatican wasn't the ideological center of a worldwide terrorist ideology, and no one in the Vatican is advocating the slaughter of all non-Catholics.

It's like asking, what would I do if they nuked the Antarctica base? It's just as irrelevent.

[adam_az]

"That means no fighting back, either."

>"I never said that and you know it, "

How can you distinguish the 2?

They cite us fighting back as the reason they have a holy obligation to slaughter us.

I see. You only don't like to give them propaganda points that come from Tancredo's mouth - all others are OK with you.

[Dane]

Not to be crude but you present a very "target rich environment" that way.

"Fish in a barrel".

Works for me.

Please, this is FR, not playstation.

[10mm]

Hmm, lets see, bomb mecca, and send a 1 billion muslims to the chicomms. Real smart strategery there.

And what would China do with a billion Muslims? They're kind of busy right now killing off their own internal Muslim problem (not that I have a dog in that fight).

The nuking of Japan sent an unmistakable warning to the Soviets. The nuking of "Dar al-Islam" would serve as a valuable warning to Red China.

[Rooivalk]

What do you think of this quote?

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last."

[Dane]

I see. You only don't like to give them propaganda points that come from Tancredo's mouth - all others are OK with you.

Uh the others aren't giving the islamofascists propaganda points.

tancredo doesn't care since it's all about him.

[Michael Goldsberry]

"Please, this is FR, not playstation."

Another fine avoidance of the topic.

Well done.

Please continue, this is quite entertaining.

[Dane]

The nuking of Japan sent an unmistakable warning to the Soviets. The nuking of "Dar al-Islam" would serve as a valuable warning to Red China

Yep it would send 1 billion muslims into the arms of the chicomms.

[Stellar Dendrite]

LMAO...everyone's catching on to you dane, you leftist troll

[Dane]

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last."

And you shouldn't feed the crocodile propaganda points, making him stronger.

[Rooivalk]

You want to talk about propaganda points? What about your boy Dick Durban? Did he give the islamofascists propaganda points?

[Dane]

LMAO...everyone's catching on to you dane, you leftist troll

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names from the #1 troll will never hurt me.