>>After reading your posts on this issue, I think I finally get where you are coming from, America bad, everyone else good.
So this is an all or nothing proposition? Agree with the use of the Abomb or else be "unamerican?" That is one example of the true definition of being closed minded.
Never did I say America was bad. I did say war crimes were committed. America like most countries (if not all) has committed crimes against humanity. (Slavery is just one example)
Does that mean America is bad? Nope. It just means we have made mistakes and hopefully have learned from them.
My point isn't to simply trash America, but rather, to shine a light on truth while people are "thanking god for the bomb". The use of the bomb is the issue here, not whether America is an evil empire. (As the left often accuses it of being).
Still pumping bilge into this thread, I see.
That's ivory tower thinking. Most human evolution occurs during war. War is the only reason the human brain evolved far beyond that needed to find food. When two tribes have a disagreement, war weighs which side has the more fit genetics and culture, and usually most of the losing side, including the civilians, are killed off. War is really high speed evolution and is what separated humans from more slowly evolving animals. Improvements in genetics or culture that might take thousands of years to be selected for naturally are selected for in a few years of war.
That being said, civilians normally die during war. The recent Iraq war was an oddity. Wars don't usually play out so clean. That can only happen in the rare case when the fight is lopsided.
Don't believe that man has suddenly changed his nature. In most future wars, civilians will not be spared as they were in Iraq.
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of ivory tower men.