Ugly, absolutely, but that doesn't mean they weren't necessary, and how many more lives are saved in the long run?
It was estimated we would have lost another million soldiers if we'd have had to invade mainland Japan. War is killing and breaking shit. Anytime you try and make it something else is when you lose. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > Dresden and Hiroshima rank right up there with the ugliest of modern times. > You start getting into the question of which is more immoral, killing > 100,000 at once or 100,000 ten at a time? Once you start trying to make > those distinctions, you're already lost. > > Judah > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:51 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Dresden and Hiroshima and similar actions won WW2. > > > > Pure brutality against the civilian population the supported the enemy. > > That's how you win wars. > > > > It is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest....... > > > > I'm sure you know the rest. > > On Nov 20, 2012 7:48 PM, "Judah McAuley" <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I think that this is an example of a leader who *thinks* he is putting > > his > > > career on the line to look out for his troops when really he is doing > an > > > awful, immoral thing for reasons that don't stand up to the light of > day > > > because he's lost his moral compass and got caught up in his own head > > > games. > > > > > > That's where we lose wars. > > > > > > Judah > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:43 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > See I think this more a case of a leader putting his career on the > line > > > to > > > > look out for his troops. > > > > > > > > We're talking conflict. Due process protections do no not apply. > > > > > > > > Personally I think if we didn't have cooks, artillerymen and truck > > > drivers > > > > conducting infantry operations this type of thing wouldn't have been > > > > happening. > > > > > > > > Your MOS gets more legal training than most because you have to treat > > the > > > > enemy. Mine gets more because we're expected to capture EPW. > > > > > > > > Tough situation, but not something I think most citizens should be > > really > > > > getting involved in unless they've been there and done that. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358640 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
