08-09-2017, 02:11 PM
(08-09-2017, 01:58 PM)Dill Wrote: I don't fall prey to "both sides do it" arguments. The US was not as bad as Japan or Germany by any stretch. But I am one of those people who thinks that killing innocent Japanese, especially children, does not balance out the atrocities carried out by military leaders in other countries.
As a pacifist, I don't see any balancing of the scales on these things. It's all abhorrent.
And also, a reminder that today is the anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
