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Of course dropping the atomic bombs was terrorisom. The stated purpose was to terrorise the population, military and civilian, into surrender. You can't argue that the US didn't directly target civilians - it's just true. Those corpses weren't collateral damage from an overzealous attempt to blow up a ball bearing factory, the corpses were the goal. Let's see - kill and threaten to kill more civilians until they won't support their government's policies or the government realizes it won't have anything left worth ruling. Yup, terrorism. Terrorism is just a word for a way of waging war. Even granting that the bombing was completely justified to the extent that God would give you pat on the back for doing his work just means it was justified terrorism. The question is whether anything justifies directly targeting civilians. Were ten japenese women and children worth one US Marine? If your answer is yes, and a lot of people's is, and you want to have a moral basis for your position then you can't condem the 9/11 atrocities simply because they were terroristic, you need to show that their cause didn't justify terrorism. And further, you need to show that when the US has used terrorism in the past it was justified. I guess the other choice is to say screw the moral basis - if you f*** with us you and everyone around you is going to be part of the glowing glass landscape. OK, I was wrong - that's a fine pagan moral basis. I'm no liberal peacenik, I design communications equipment for the special forces types, and if any of our gear helps a Marine sniper put some bullets through the heads of certain clowns running around Afghanistan no one will be happier than me. But I am a non-cafeteria Catholic and I will not support indescriminate bombing, nuclear or otherwise, of innocent civilians, Japanese or Afghani. Luckily, Bush seems to be with me so far on Afghanistan. God I can ramble.

But I am a non-cafeteria Catholic and I will not support indescriminate bombing, nuclear or otherwise, of innocent civilians, Japanese or Afghani.

I'm Catholic also, and moral theologians have different opinions on the dropping of the atomic bombs.

If you, as an AMERICAN, believe that the loss of 200,000 soliders to an enemy is justified when other means were available to save those soldiers, then you're beyond hope.

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.