Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!riddle From: riddle@im4u.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Commemorating Hiroshima Message-ID: <410@im4u.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:15:15 EDT Article-I.D.: im4u.410 Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:15:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 05:24:22 EDT References: <438@kontron.UUCP> <1392@uwmacc.UUCP> <296@ihdev.UUCP> Reply-To: riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Distribution: net Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 18 Junk-Mobile: "Bob" >> Hey, I *like* Japanese culture, food, and people. And I'll buy a Japanese >> car before I'll ever buy an American junkmobile. But Imperial Japan got >> what she had coming to her. Maybe "Imperial Japan" got its just desserts, but were the tens of thousands of civilians killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki really "Imperial Japan"? I don't think so. Whether or not you believe that our actions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the war, if you care about human life and human suffering then you must agree that they were deeply tragic. Any act of war, no matter how defensive in nature, is a cause for sorrow. When are we ever going to learn that war itself is the real enemy? --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech}!ut-sally!riddle riddle@ut-sally.UUCP --- riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally, riddle%im4u@ut-sally