[porkchops 4 mahound]

I don't need anyone to explain collateral damage to me.

I have spent quiet hours listening to the wind and water beat against the white hull of the U.S.S. Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

I have stood at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on an anniversary of the bomb, in US Navy uniform, and written "Remember Pearl Harbor!" in the visitor book.

I have stood in the Broken Stone Arch of the Catholic church upon the hill of Nagasaki, where the air burst was centered, and where it displaced the stone arch exactly the width of the stone.

I don't need anyone to explain the difference between MURDER and WAR.

Apparently you do.

That you, and those of your ilk, would dare to question the HONOR and MORALITY of our ancestors who fought to the death, and defeated, BY FORCE OF ARMS, a nation run by murdering animals who would have gladly killed off the entire population of Japan to defend their "way of life". Shows the failure of you, and such folks as you, to have any frikkin clue of the realities of TOTAL WAR.

There is one morality in WAR, that is Victory.

Please spare me your Pollyannish "morality" blather.

Without the use of Atomic bombs, MILLIONS of lives more would have been lost. MILLIONS. If you doubt that, your ignorance is indeed, invincible.

You dishonor the memory of those who gave all, that you could live, to be free, to be so proud, of your "moral" "superiority".

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's US law, and it's God's law.

You can leave Pollyanna out of it.

[Romulus]

There is one morality in WAR, that is Victory.

What a curious thing to believe. This is the expression of a utilitarian mindset, an 18th century philosophy that reduced morality to a purely relative and pragmatic construct. Having embraced this argument, you cannot reasonably claim to be fighting for anything higher than your private self-interest.