Posted on 08/25/2003 5:18:02 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
The Germans killed lots of civilians, and so did the Japanese. Was it wrong to take out some of their cities or not?
Yes or no?
While we are not able to eliminate sin because of free will, we can strive to assure it does not happen with impunity.
And neither were the Germans or Japanese who murdered civilians really Nazis or Shintoists, respectively.
I don't see how you can say this while the Koran says to kill the infidel. If it weren't for the Koran, I could entertain your arguement seriously. Besides, who are you to decide who are and are not Muslims?
Reason #7,723,602 that George W. Bush is President while you are playing the blustery windbag.
Allow me to help you. Apparently this poster feels that a "quick strike victory" is something he's compelled to advocate here on FreeRepublic.
BTW, aren't ad hominum attacks against the rules?
So, are you going to answer my question, or not?
Was the US justified in destroying the German and Japanese cities in question or not?
Flesh it out in detail for all to see, rather than accuse others of all sorts of things and typing ad hominum attacks. Surely a person as witty as yourself can pull that off.
Please make your case. Was it justified for the US to destroy enemy cities in WWII? Would it be a justifiable course of action now or in the near future? If so, under what circumstances? What are the differences between the past and the present threats, if any? What are the similarities or differences?
I suspect that many on this thread do not understand what the Iraqi people suffered under Saddam Hussein. They do NOT want an Islamist nation, nor do they want to be under the rule of a despot.
Go back and read the DOD briefings, the quotes from the Iraqi people, the Iraqi Council meetings - government set up by the Iraqi people in cities across this country already.
We've made amazing progress in a very short time. I guarantee, that where there are pockets of regime loyalists or terrorists, our troops are not playing games. They are taking them out - with the help of the Iraqi people who are risking not only their own lives but that of their families to go after those who tormented them for decades.
What you see being hyped by the media daily is about as honest as taking the most crime-ridden neighborhood in America and calling THAT America. Come to think of it, when DID crime in the big cities of America (DNC country) make the national news?
The troops are asking for our help getting the truth out to the world. The press wants us to lose. That should shock the civilized world into addressing the power and accountability of today's mainstream partisan hacks.
Look here is the point I am trying to make: I think it's terrific that we are helping them, but I don't see anything that WE (the US) are getting out of this deal that is worth the life of one brave American soldier. I don't like putting Americans in harm's way when we are not there for oil, or conquest. Nations cannot survive by sending the best, brightest and bravest to die in altruistic causes. It is folly to think otherwise.
There is a quick way to end this thing, one that would both send a strong and irrefutable message, and one that would save American lives. It appears, however, that we are serious enough to send Americans to die, but not serious enough to get it over with quickly.
We are also setting ourselves up for a massive investment, in terms of money, to rebuild Iraq (when we reach that point). And for a country that is running massively in the red, it is bad policy.
I disagree. We did it Europe, Japan and later, Korea, with excellent results.
You can't just bomb every major Islamic city in the world into smithereens, except as a last resort. We're just not at that point now, and hopefully won't ever be. The President's current strategy is working, or so it would seem. Besides, there is no real center of power in the Islamic world; it is dispersed.
They can pay for it themselves with their oil reserves.
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