[rmvh]

Re your #22

The destruction of the WTC was exactly the same as the destruction of Dresden and the massacre of it's citizens...not a particle of difference. The aim was to kill civilians.

Hitler was evil, you say, and that was enough to justify the Dresden massacre....OK, OBL is evil and, using your logic, that justifies the WTC disaster!!!....I don't think so.

[majordomo]

If I recall history correctly, during WWII many in the western world could not comprehend the Japanese mindset that would cause their pilots to dive their planes into American warships loaded with HE. I also remember reading an article in a scholarly historical journal written by an author who had researched in as much detail as possible what took place in the Japanese hierarchy near the end of the war. One thing from that article stuck with me. When military commanders eplained to Emperor Hirohito what happened in Hiroshima and advised him that the allies demanded Japan's surrender, Hirohito's comment was, "How long would it take us to build one of these bombs.?" What I took away from this article was the absolute necessity for acquiring an understanding of the enemy's belief system and thought processes before deciding what course of action is correct.