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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [QB] [i]"Based on what we know now, were the bombings justified?"[/i] I'd still have to say no, because, when you respond to a massacre (or, rather, when you strike back at an imperialist aggressor for sinking your precious battleships when you would have been happy to stay on the sidelines and let said aggressor continue its reign of terror unabated) with two hideous bloodbaths of your own and then later tack on some cop-out story that you were first and foremost engaged in the war to bring a halt to the humanitarian crimes perpetrated by your enemy, how are you any different from the slaughterers? But more than that it's a question of emotional detachment: I'm not a survivor of a Japanese death camp. My family wasn't murdered at Nanjing. It's impossible for me to feel anything other than sorrow for the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings weren't justified in my (non-Chinese) eyes, but maybe they were in yours, in which case nothing I can say will ever change that. [i]The US is currently being acused of "Imperilsm" for the war in Iraq and it's always pointed out that we dont intervene in other countries where atrocities happen every day....[/i] I think that attitude stems from the fact that, when you do intervene in other countries, it's always out of some motivated self-interest (Bosnia excluded) and never out of commiseration for the plight of the people in them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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