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...prosperity” with enabling the growth of democracy (albeit flawed) in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, promoting “universal rights” and helping “liberate” countries from Japanese imperialism and communism. This is, of course, if you overlook Vietnam, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suppression of the Filipino independence movement and other lesser “transgressions...
...being told what to do under threat of an adversary's weapons of mass destruction capability any more than the U.S. does. And that tends to spur them on to develop or expand their own WMD capability. The geopolitical trump card that emerged with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 prompted first Russia, then several other countries to develop their own nukes, with Iraq, Iran and North Korea doing their best to join the club...
...time for him to use the weapons he has assuredly been preparing since the U.N. inspectors were kicked out. So the choice between a slow or fast war against Iraq is one of equal evils. Either could end with horrors of a sort the world has not witnessed since Nagasaki...
Pacifism is the way to utter disaster. Outrageous terrorism should perhaps be repaid in kind, in the present case by destroying Afghanistan, just as leveling Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war with Japan. This could be done without endangering the lives of our armed forces and will send an undisputed message to international terrorists. EDWARD G. NISBETT Navarre...
...could, and that need tended to drive out noble sentiments. This is a theme another writer, Paul Fussell, takes up even more brutally in his essay "Thank God for the Atom Bomb." His argument is simple: better them than us--them being the Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, us being the American troops (Fussell among them) poised to invade the Japanese home islands in 1945. Citing ex-Marine E.B. Sledge's eyewitness account of Pacific combat, Fussell writes of Marines "sliding under fire down a shell-pocked ridge, slimy with mud and liquid dysentery...into the maggoty Japanese...