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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
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:15:15 1985
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Reply-To: riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
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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.")
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