Ramon bombed Iraqi reactor in '81

The Jerusalem Post ^ | Jan. 17, 2003 | JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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I wrote
"Huh? Saving Jews was never a goal of the US in World War 2. Hell, we failed to even bomb the train tracks leading to death camps."

Mach.08 responded
That statement above is typical, condescending blather that honestly, incenses me as a patriotic American who has lost family members in that war. What are you saying in the above statement? Is this more scolding MY country because it mounted a mountainous task, involving all able bodied citizens to snuff out the AXIS powers in order to liberate the WORLD from NAZI OPPRESSION?

You misunderstand me. The liberation of Europe was an admirable goal. It truly was a crusade. However, the impetus was neither to save Jews Gypsies or enslaved Europeans, but to defeat a country that had declared war on us. This is not an aspersion towards the brave American soldiers sailors marines and airmen who died, but a simple historical fact.

You like to play "hopskotch" with your definition of a MONSTER. Hell yes, Oppenheimer was just as big a monster as Hitler, come on now, jeesh,wasn't he the RINGLEADER in the research intended to not only exterminate, but to TOTALLY VAPORIZE millions of civilians???

There are many reasons to condemn Robert Oppenheimer. He was a communist who gave the Soviets the bomb. However, he did not commit an evil act by leading research on nuclear weapons.
He, along with Eistein Teller and others worked on the bomb because teh Nazis were and it was imperative that we beat them to the punch, lest the Nazis win the war.
Furthermore, I would posit that nuclear weapons have saved millions of people. Do you know what the cost of an invasion of Japan would have been to the Japanese? If you extrapolate civilian casualties from the Ryukus campaign to the home islands, we would be dealing with tens of millions.
It then allowed us to help contian the Soviets after the war.