Priyo Pujiwasono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Priyo Pujiwasono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [forum-iki] Targeting Civilians ?
Sambil mengutuk aksi pemboman terhadap warga sipil di London, artikel berikut menarik disimak: mengapa bom Hiroshima & Nagasaki tidak pernah diakui sebagai aksi terorisme terbesar sepanjang sejarah karena sasarannya jelas2 puluhan atau bahkan ratusan ribu warga sipil? Bagaimana pemboman "salah sasaran" terhadap warga sipil oleh militer AS yg terus terjadi di Irak & Afghan, kenapa PBB dan dunia tidak melakukan kutukan serupa? Targeting Civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Anthony Gregory, tag -->August 6, 2004 ........... People still defend Harry Trumans atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on pragmatic grounds. Trumans defenders say that the bombings saved far more lives than they extinguished. Indeed, it was terrorism on an incredibly large scale. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese were instantaneously wiped off the earth on August 6 and August 9, 1945. Many more died in the following years from the radioactive climate left behind by the bombings. So the questions remain: Was this a case where terrorism was justified? Can there be other circumstances where the overt targeting of civilians can be justified, so as to bring about a greater good? In the case of Hiroshima, no substantive evidence exists that the bombing was necessary to make Japan surrender. In fact, the Japanese had already attempted to sue for peace in July and were only hesitant because they distrusted the terms of unconditional surrender that the Allies demanded. They specifically wanted to keep their emperor, which, after the atomic bombings, they were allowed to, anyway. The military estimated before Hiroshima that invasion would cost as many as 20,000 American lives, but not nearly the half million lives that Truman later claimed had been the estimate. Even without invasion, Japan was utterly defeated by the war and U.S. blockades prevented the island nation from getting the necessary food to survive, much less maintain any type of threat against America. More.... http://www.fff.org/comment/com0408b.asp --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "forum-iki" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- _____________________________________________________ Berhenti/mengganti konfigurasi keanggotaan anda, silahkan ke: http://rantaunet.org/palanta-setting ------------------------------------------------------------ Tata Tertib Palanta RantauNet: http://rantaunet.org/palanta-tatatertib ____________________________________________________
