[Homestead] Asia doubts US resolve

Bill Jones billj at harborside.com
Sat Dec 10 17:44:27 EST 2005


Rob wrote:

>At  12/9/2005 08:22 AM,Bill Jones wrote:
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>>  I mean, we've lived for years now knowing
>>that thanks to the blunders of '45, other nations' nuclear weapons are
>>aimed at us by the thousands.
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> From what I've heard the guys who were going to have to invade Japan 
>thought the bombing was a good idea & others were working on 
>splitting the atom at the time. Technology is a lot like Pandora's Box.
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I never said the blunder was in using it.  I can't answer that.  But it 
was definitely a blunder to sit idly by and allow the Soviets, followed 
by the Chinese, to acquire nuclear weapons.

>>But isn't it a little crazy to treat the Germans and Japanese like
>>children who can't manage their only armies?  It's a different world now.
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>How's the world different? Smaller maybe?
>FWIW there are still people around who remember what Japan & Germany 
>did in the years between 1900 and 1945, people who still have 
>nightmares over it.
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Does anyone seriously imagine that the Japanese are going to attack 
anywhere on the mainland, or that the Germans might invade France again?

What's different is that a county's wealth is no longer proportional to 
its territory, as in the traditional sense.

Bill



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