Posted on 02/15/2002 5:22:06 AM PST by Arkle
Put the onus on those who invited their own destruction.
Of course.
Those with the agenda to demonize the victors (whatever their motivation, I have my theories) will with a straight face say the most outrageous things.
This is preparation to try and head off the only demonstrably effective way to defeat a people who have been whipped into an emotional frenzy with the double delusion of world domination and cultural superiority.
Anything current sound familiar?
By stone age barbarians barely a stone's throw from the stone age?
Hmmmmmm?
Sounds innocent enough.
Please excuse my total and complete skepticism, however.
The article was written in 1963.
You are one scary m***********.
The subject of the article is needless civilian deaths.
Your clintonesque word play nonwithstanding, most of us can see through your cynical attempt to obfuscate and derail.
I just haven't figured out the agenda yet.
It can't be anything as crass a Arab money...
Can it?
And that technique is known as changing the subject and plain old fashioned unadorned demagoguing propaganda.
Putting words in other people's mouths in order to then sermonize is the sign of an intellectual coward and a mental eunuch.
Surely you can scrape up a counterattack on what he actually said! Even a pathetic one would be an improvement.
We knew that.
I was referring to the purpose of dragging it out all hoary and dusty, today.
The author is using a bombing raid to illustrate a point, one which claims that the Allies were, at the least, just as bad as their foes. He's essentially calling the Allies murderous barbarians. I dispute that.
The story of Dresden is a glimpse of it.
Hell is more horrible and more horrifying than the human mind can imagine.
Dresden and the other horrors of World War II would not have happened if Hitler and his Nazis had been stopped before they acquired enough power to make it happen--if the world had listened to people like Winston Churchill instead of the likes of Neville Chamberlain.
Hitler and his Nazis are not unique. Such people have been a part of the human race since its beginning, and they no doubt always will be. They are with us now. Such people must be stopped before they can gain enough power to wreak hell on earth.
Bin Ladin and his Al-Qaida terrorists are a contemporary recrudescence of this, as murderous and blood-thirsty as any Hitler or any Nazis. The trappings and rhetoric may differ, but they are the same people. They must be stopped now, before they can acquire more power. But defeating and neutralizing them will not prevent another Dresden from happening. Other, similar monsters will arise to take their place and, if they can, wreak more hell upon the earth.
George Bush understands this. And he understands the importance of stopping these people now, no matter what the cost, because the cost of not stopping them will continue to increase until we face another Dresden or Heroshima.
If the world is never to experience another Dresden--or Hamburg or Wurzburg--or Heroshima or Nagasaki--if it is never to experience another Auschwitz or Dachau--or Nanking--or Stalingrad or Leningrad--and pray right now that it never does!--it will be because of people like George Bush, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman--and IN SPITE OF people like Neville Chamberlain.
Well said.
There are many, many people who consider themselves "conservative" who are not. A true conservative is opposed to MURDER. There are many "conservatives" who favor murder, if it is done by the "right people"--e.g., Presidents of the U.S. bombing civilians, police removing rescuers from the doors of an abortion mill, etc. These are both examples of murder, yet there are plenty of "conservatives" who defend them.
Hmmmm. Does that mean that we should expect fire-bombings of our major cities?
Interesting article: poignant.
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