Dixieland Dancer, I understand your point but I will still hold to it that there is a great difference. When the actual people sit down and take a vote about how much money should be spent on this and that, then I will change my mind.

Originally posted by Dixieland Dancer
In response to the Atom bomb being used in Japan. What about the attack on Pearl Harbor that started the conflict between Japan and the USA? Was that justified? In war you have to realize there are casualties on both sides.
I focused a lot of my article/rant on that actually... See, the difference is that the 3290 people killed at Pearl Harbor were almost all military, and the over 300 000 people that died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilians. The aftermath in Japan was terrible as well, with thousands of people dying in cancer and other diseases. The total lack of responsibility in dropping the first nuclear bomb (without a thought or care towards the consequences) was only out-done by dropping the second bomb on Nagasaki, after already seeing the terrible outcome. Pearl Harbor was actual war; Hiroshima and Nagasaki were murder.

jackiesdaisy1935, I see that you are going to ignore me now... LOL

Originally posted by lbaker
I think it's very telling that the most rational, most reasonable and intellegent comments here are those coming from those of us who have "been around" awhile and had some time and experience to grow up a bit. I'm not putting the "younger generation" down or anything but really...... get some real experience before you start your preaching about how right you are and how wrong we are

Laurie, American & proud of it
I dunno, but I think the people who are being rational, most reasonable and intellegent are the younger people. The older people use name-calling (like Richard's "pissant" countries or jackiesdaisy1935 "peachypoo") and irrational and ignorant comments like your own about age mattering. It's a well accepted fact that younger people are more open to new ideas, while old people like yourself or so set in their beliefs that they cannot even listen to the younger generation without basing them, like you just did. I find that extremely dissapointing that it had to come down to this.

And seriously, look at Richard's posts. He refers to war as "let's dance" and makes all sorts of other comments. How mature is that?! And he must be over 40 since he's worked in the med field over 26 years, like he said himself.

I think I will try to follow Soledad's example and leave this thread alone unless some maturity and intellegence is brought back in. It was nice while it lasted...