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reply posted on 8-11-2008 @ 01:44 PM by Woland
reply to post by N. Tesla



Well, I guess you don't have to attempt to counter my argument, but your buckled hypothetical situation that 'proves' there are no innocents in war just exposes you further. How many people outside the armed forces are prepared, or given a chance, should a soldier try and kill them or their family? What chance does a population have if they are attacked with air strikes, for example? I'm amazed you even used such a flawed example.

If the United States was defeated by an invading country, was run peaceable and declared part of the invading country, say Canada (how ever unlikely), how many years would it be before you or your decendents accepted yourselves as Canadian?


I'm editing this to add a few words in response to the OP: The non-proliferation act is designed to keep the world stable. The powerful countries make the rules and regardless of whether they are democratic or tyrannical, they do not want anything to upset their domination.

The United States has in the post-WW2 era become the most internationally agressive of the domineering countries, helped by the size of its military and its wealth, through a multitude of strategies in order to defeat, placate or ostracise those countries that don't agree to play be these rules.

That's it really. There are of course exceptions; during the time of the USSR a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR would end much of the life on this planet, so USA could do little but tolerate the USSR's possession of nuclear weapons. Israel is a client state of the USA and it's precarious position in the middle east requires a deterent, how ever unspoken. &c.

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reply posted on 9-11-2008 @ 02:33 PM by pexx421
Some of you are seriously wrong on several points. Didnt read all the way through so sorry if someone has already posted this, but 1) The japanese had been begging to surrender for months before we dropped the bombs. Read your own history. They wanted to surrender with just 1 condition, that being that their emperor remained on the throne. We refused this, bombed them, then let them keep their 1 condition anyhow, so the only obvious reason for the bombing was to intimidate russia for the cold war we knew was coming.

2) Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not large military instillations, in fact they were almost completely women and children, as almost all men of fighting age were already at the front line.

and 3) we are NOT dismantling and reducing nuclear weapons, indeed we are expanding them to weapons of first resort, with "small" bunker busters being pushed for first attacks that WILL spread nuclear fallout and pollution, as well as our depleted uranium armor piercing rounds, Millions of which are scattered about iraq, which are causing our soldiers coming home now to have children with deformities and abnormalities, and may be the cause of "gulf war syndrome" that was laughed off in the 90's. We are not reducing our risk of nuclear use in war, we are making it a standard part of all attacks, and if its effecting our soldiers families now, it will be effecting the iraqi's families for generations, just as it has been the japanese.


reply posted on 9-11-2008 @ 02:42 PM by pexx421
Its useless to argue with most americans about our actions overseas because most of them have no idea how badly we have affected such countries as el salvador, columbia, Iran, Cuba, vietnam, Congo, Rwanda, Laos, Cambodia, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, with the 16 dictators we have installed around the world, and with the slave labor that our economy supports and makes endemic in africa, and in south america (during the banana republics). Hopefully one day americans will get to experience, in some form, the frustration other countries experience....maybe when some other predominant country meddles in our elections, or installs a dictator over OUR people that sends our natural resources to some OTHER country, or firebombs OUR cities in the name of ideological difference so that Capitalism and Fascism cant spread its poison to their land, or puts OUR people under military occupation so they can steal our oil, with dozens of their bases in our country, raping our women and imprisoning us without due process or habeus corpus....oh wait, our government can already do that last one to us now.

Truly, you can never expect the perpetrators, or those who GAIN from the perpetration, to understand the oppression they foster upon others. To even speak of it is to attack their addictions to the belief in their own greatness and anytime you attack someones addictions you can expect them to react violently. Just try telling people the truth of something as simple as how bad milk is for you and watch them get worked up as they try to defend the years of belief fostered upon them by the advertising agencies "WHAT?? milk Does a body GOOD! what kind of fool are you, dont you watch commercials?!!"


reply posted on 9-11-2008 @ 02:49 PM by N. Tesla
reply to post by pexx421



first of all im not even sure how this became a thread on morals. second of all is milk seriously bad for you?

i don't support America or most of its actions. but i _javascript:gvid()honestly and truly believe that nukes are necessary to maintain order. as for the japan thing i was somewhat aware of the fact that they already wanted to give up and it was just a test but one way or the other it saved American lives. i would argue this same argument for any country. if i lived in Russia i would argue that Russia should have nuked Afghanistan and cut our losses. if i lived in Afghanistan i would have argued the opposite. the point is that America is a #ed up place and that the only reason it still has the nukes is because it has the most. so who's gonna argue with the big guy?
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