If a policeman sees someone in the act of killing someone he has the right and the duty to stop that act even if he has to shoot the fellow to stop him.
I remember one of the comment an ex-GI made while touring an old Army B-17 about the Hiroshima bomb. "All Hirohito would've had to do is show one of these" (pulls white handkerchief from pocket)
Wars are not merely 'disagreements' gone wrong. They are acts of criminal violence which must be stopped by any means necessary I'm afraid. Since we don't have one of those Gort robots (from tThe Day the Earth Stood Still) to keep watch imperfect men - often with conflicting agendae - have to do the job of making the world (relatively) safe for freedom and all that.
All too often that job falls to the Americans which means that they get to set the conditions and agendae to their liking. (He who lays the gold lays the rules) If people want a safer world and don't want the US to dominate it they have to make up their minds and get organised. Freedom like Power and just about everything else isn't granted it is taken.
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Date: 2001-10-03 09:09 am (UTC)I remember one of the comment an ex-GI made while touring an old Army B-17 about the Hiroshima bomb. "All Hirohito would've had to do is show one of these" (pulls white handkerchief from pocket)
Wars are not merely 'disagreements' gone wrong. They are acts of criminal violence which must be stopped by any means necessary I'm afraid. Since we don't have one of those Gort robots (from tThe Day the Earth Stood Still) to keep watch imperfect men - often with conflicting agendae - have to do the job of making the world (relatively) safe for freedom and all that.
All too often that job falls to the Americans which means that they get to set the conditions and agendae to their liking. (He who lays the gold lays the rules) If people want a safer world and don't want the US to dominate it they have to make up their minds and get organised. Freedom like Power and just about everything else isn't granted it is taken.