[TPartyType]

You wrote, "Not a one of us here would ever favour the loss of non-combatant life," but that's exactly what SentryoverAmerica advocates in #60.

[Prodigal Daughter]

That's one of the quotes from Some prominent Americans who questioned the atomic bombing of Japan

[Jeff Chandler]

Before you condemn our use of atomic weapons, study the history the Japanese defense of Okinowa. If you know anything about Japanese culture, you know what the losses incurred in an invasion of the mainland would have been. And don't start in with the nonsense about how they kinda, sorta surrendered, but we were too stupid to understand them. The Japanese are smart people and they know how to dick people around (I wonder if the Palestinians learned from them). Of course they were willing to surrender, just like Saddam in the Gulf War, only we weren't in the mood to be suckered back then. We wern't afraid to negotiate from a position of strength. As for the "experimenting" argument, we knew what the bombs would do.

[BluesDuke]

You wrote, "Not a one of us here would ever favour the loss of non-combatant life," but that's exactly what SentryoverAmerica advocates in #60.

I was writing and posting my words before SOA's appeared. One of the occasional hazards of FREEPing: you take some time to enunciate a thought, and while you do so someone else is putting up something which you are unaware might contradict a point you are working on making.