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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Asia doubts US resolve
  • Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:44:27 -0800

Rob wrote:

At 12/9/2005 08:22 AM,Bill Jones wrote:

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.


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.



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.


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.


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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