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Does this imply that we trampled upon our values as a nation when we firebombed Dresden and Tokyo?

5 posted on 09/21/2006 6:10:58 PM PDT by Axhandle (Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!)

To the Leftie Loonie Losers and Sissies --- YES.

11 posted on 09/21/2006 6:14:32 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

Does this imply that we trampled upon our values as a nation when we firebombed Dresden and Tokyo?

Don't apply the logic of the past to our times. That would be... barbaric.

(/s)

18 posted on 09/21/2006 6:20:35 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)

Does this imply that we trampled upon our values as a nation when we firebombed Dresden and Tokyo?

That's a very good question, except that this war is fundamentally different.

In WWII, we were at war with the whole countries of Japan and Germany. This time, we're only at war with the Taliban, who is the enemy of those women and children as much as they are our enemy. We are not at war with all of Afghanistan.

In other words, the innocents of Afghanistan aren't just noncombatants of an enemy state, like in WWII, they are our noncombatant allies, enemies of our enemy, and one of the main reasons we are there.

I'm siding with the General on this one.

97 posted on 09/22/2006 10:24:21 AM PDT by TChris (The United Nations is suffering from delusions of relevance.)

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